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Writers Guild sharply rebukes latest offer from Hollywood studios
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Writers Guild rejected the latest offer from TV and movie studios in a statement on Tuesday night, thrusting the acrimonious negotiations into public view 113 days after [Read More…]
Fyre Festival 2 tickets on sale and customers are buying, disgraced founder says
jfizzy/Star Max/GC Images/ Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The disgraced founder of the 2017 Fyre Festival, Billy McFarland, is selling tickets for a follow-up event and customers are buying them, he said in recent posts [Read More…]
Sales slumps at Target and Bud Light may fuel more boycotts, experts say
Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Target’s sales declined over a three-month period for the first time in six years, the company announced last week, attributing the loss in part to what the company’s Executive [Read More…]
Generation Z sees biggest increase in credit card debt, Gen X has highest balance: Report
Adam Gault/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Generation Z is racking up more credit card debt than previous generations, while Generation X holds the highest average of credit card debt, according to recent data from Credit [Read More…]
Big business mulls approach to Trump bid after opposing 2020 election lies
Mark Wilson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Three days after Election Night 2020, dozens of CEOs from the nation’s largest companies logged into a Zoom call aiming to prevent the collapse of American democracy, according to [Read More…]
Amid spread of AI tools, advocates for new digital standard say it would help sort fact from fiction
ABC News Senior Reporter Emmanuelle Saliba speaks with Adobe General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer Dana Rao. — ABC News (NEW YORK) — Experts tell ABC News that the rise of generative artificial intelligence is [Read More…]
Mortgage rates surge to 21-year high
Thomas Northcut/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Mortgage rates have climbed to their highest levels in 21 years, according to data released by Freddie Mac on Thursday. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 7.09% over the week [Read More…]
Special counsel sought Trump’s Twitter DMs despite ‘extraordinary’ pushback from company, court documents say
Aytug Can Sencar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Special counsel Jack Smith earlier this year sought extensive data, including direct messages, tied to former President Donald Trump’s account on X, formerly known as [Read More…]
Starbucks ordered to pay extra $2.7M to employee who said she was fired for being white
RapidEye/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A New Jersey federal judge has ordered Starbucks to pay a former employee who was awarded $25.6 million in a wrongful termination suit an extra $2.7 million in damages. Shannon [Read More…]
New warning about rental scams using electronic lockboxes
Grace Cary/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — If you’re in the market to rent a new home, there’s a new warning by the Federal Trade Commission that you should be wary of before you go tour [Read More…]
Wendy’s adds two new English muffin breakfast sandwiches, complete with signature square sausage patty
Wendy’s (NEW YORK) — Attention all Croissan’wich fans: There’s a new carb contender hitting the breakfast menu at Wendy’s. The fast food chain announced its latest a.m. innovation on Tuesday, launching two new English Muffin [Read More…]
Hawaiian Electric shares plummet 40% after Maui wildfires lawsuit
Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (HONOLULU) — Shares of Hawaiian Electric have plummeted nearly 40% since trading opened Monday over concerns that the utility company could be held liable for damage wrought by the Maui [Read More…]
New Summer Remix Menu at Starbucks has three unique drink customizations
Starbucks (NEW YORK) — Starbucks is adding a new spin to three of its drinks for the final weeks of summer. Creating unique customizations has long been popular with Starbucks fans, especially on social media, [Read More…]
Nestle recalls some Toll House chocolate chip cookie dough over potential presence of wood fragments
FDA (NEW YORK) — Nestlé USA issued a voluntary recall of a “limited quantity” of its Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough “break and bake” Bar product due to the “potential presence of wood fragments,” [Read More…]
Mark Zuckerberg says Elon Musk ‘isn’t serious’ about cage match and it’s ‘time to move on’
MANDEL NGAN/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Sunday that X owner Elon Musk “isn’t serious” about a potential cage match, adding that it’s “time to move on” from the much-hyped [Read More…]
Judge revokes bail for disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has had his bail revoked and he has been immediately remanded to custody of the U.S. Marshals. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the [Read More…]
Group behind affirmative action case sues Black venture fund for alleged racial bias
Paras Griffin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Fearless Fund, a venture capitalist firm that invests in female entrepreneurs of color, is now the target of a lawsuit launched by a group founded by the man who [Read More…]
Even Zoom brought workers back to the office. Here’s what it means.
(SAN JOSE, Calif.) — Zoom, whose sales and cultural prominence soared when the pandemic forced millions of workers to stay home, said last week that it plans to bring employees back to the office. The [Read More…]
Inflation ticked up in July, reversing some progress in fight to slow price hikes
Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Consumer prices rose 3.2% last month compared to a year ago, marking an uptick that reverses some of the progress achieved in the monthslong fight to bring inflation down [Read More…]
What to know about Virgin Galactic’s first mission taking paying customers to space
Virgin Galactic02 crew members, Jon Goodwin, Keisha Schahaff and Anastasia Mayers. (Virgin Galactic) (NEW YORK) — Virgin Galactic is launching its first mission carrying paying customers on Thursday just weeks after the company’s first flight [Read More…]