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Snapchat (NEW YORK) — Snapchat announced new safeguards on its app Thursday to protect teens against unwanted contact and malicious online interactions. The measures aim to provide a more appropriate user experience for youth in [Read More…]

Greg Bajor/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The cost of a plane ticket is plummeting: Experts say domestic airfare for the fall is down 29% from the summer. “That’s about $87 per ticket less expensive than [Read More…]

Shake Shack (NEW YORK) — Spicy foods deliver a unique feeling — not to be confused with flavor — and for those with pepper-preferential palates and with a wide range of capsaicin-filled foods, fast casual [Read More…]

ABC News (SAN FRANCISCO) — With self-driving cars already here, San Francisco took another step forward recently, allowing companies to offer driverless taxi services in the city. Last month, officials voted to allow two companies, [Read More…]

USDA (NEW YORK) — Hillshire Brands Company has recalled nearly 15,876 pounds of blended meat and poultry smoked sausage products “that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically bone fragments,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s [Read More…]

Bill Pugliano/Getty Images (DETROIT) — A four-day workweek at full-time pay, a 46% wage increase and a share of company profits are among the demands of the union representing approximately 150,000 workers at the Big 3 [Read More…]

Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Nearly 15 million cable viewers lost access to ESPN, ABC and other Disney-owned channels over Labor Day weekend when the global entertainment company and cable giant Charter [Read More…]

Disney (NEW YORK) — The all-new Disney Treasure is the sixth ship to join the magical Disney Cruise Line fleet, and while it doesn’t officially set sail until December 2024, ABC News’ Good Morning America [Read More…]

Lucid Motors (NEW YORK) — America has range anxiety. Lucid Motors CEO Peter Rawlinson may have an answer. Rawlinson, an industry veteran who previously engineered cars for Tesla, Lotus and Jaguar, built the Lucid Air [Read More…]

Kwanchai Lerttanapunyaporn/EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW  YORK) — The U.S. hiring spree slowed in recent months as employers took on fewer workers and provided smaller wage increases, government data released on Friday showed. Hiring held steady in [Read More…]

Greg Bajor/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the summer winds down, Labor Day weekend travel is about to get underway. Here’s what you need to know before hitting the road or heading to the airport. [Read More…]

by Marc Guitard/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — It’s a moment those with student loans have been dreading — payments are one step closer to resuming. After a three-year pause on federal student loan payments, Friday will [Read More…]

Anton Petrus/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration is rethinking how it classifies marijuana under a federal list of drugs, a move that could allow the cannabis industry to save potentially billions in federal taxes [Read More…]

jmsilva/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Low water levels at the Panama Canal are causing a traffic jam at the historic trading route that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, threatening to ensnarl the holiday shipping [Read More…]

Matt Cardy/Getty Images (MIAMI) — Fast food chain Burger King is facing a lawsuit that claims its signature Whopper is marketed on restaurant menu boards as a bigger sandwich than it is in reality. Consumers [Read More…]

Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As Hurricane Idalia slams parts of Florida, the state’s huge tourism industry is also being impacted. The storm made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend [Read More…]

Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser testifies during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Sept. 22, 2022 in Washington, DC. — Drew Angerer/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Dozens of the [Read More…]

Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As Hurricane Idalia makes its way towards Florida, one area at risk is the state’s huge tourism industry. The storm is forecast to make [Read More…]

RapidEye/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Chipotle Mexican Grill has agreed to a six-figure settlement after an investigation in the nation’s capital “identified over 800 potential violations of Washington, D.C.’s child labor laws over the past [Read More…]

Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo’s plane touches down in Beijing, the goal of the trip, according to the Secretary, is to promote “healthy competition” between the two [Read More…]