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By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business After nearly 30 years and a lot of hilariously bizarre moments, Conan O’Brien said goodbye to late night on Thursday night. “Conan,” O’Brien’s long-running TBS show, concluded on Thursday night, bringing an end to a late night TV era. And O’Brien’s late night career came to a close with the

By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business As more Americans get vaccinated, states across the country are lifting their pandemic restrictions. That means that one popular relief measure — the allowance of to-go cocktails at restaurants — is either expiring or continuing, depending on where you live. The National Restaurant Association counted about 26 states — most

President Joe Biden announced a bipartisan agreement on the infrastructure deal. CNN’s Ryan Nobles details how the package will be paid for.

By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Stocks are rallying Thursday after President Joe Biden announced a bipartisan agreement on an infrastructure deal. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite are on track to hit new record highs and the Dow is up about 350 points. “We have a deal,” Biden told reporters Thursday. Even though it is

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Wendy’s is testing a new plant-based burger — but it doesn’t use a meat alternative. Beginning June 28, the fast food chain is selling a new “Spicy Black Bean Burger” in three US cities, including Jacksonville, Pittsburgh and Columbus, Ohio. The sandwich costs $5.79 and will be on menus for

By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Government statistics aren’t always inclusive and little data is currently collected on the LGBTQ+ community. But that might change as soon as next month. The Census Bureau wants to begin including questions about sexual orientation and gender identity in one of its surveys, according to a Federal Register notice filed

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Victoria’s Secret’s brand image was in tatters, and its owner finally had an escape route. In February 2020, L Brands, the publicly-traded parent of Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works, struck a $525 million deal with private equity firm Sycamore Partners to give up its majority stake in Victoria’s

By Kerry Flynn, CNN Business BuzzFeed, the 15-year-old digital media company known for its lists, quizzes and its Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism, announced Thursday that it plans to go public at an estimated valuation of $1.5 billion. It’s a big deal in the media world, but still somewhat anticlimactic compared to the hype around BuzzFeed just

By Chauncey Alcorn, CNN Business The grand opening for rapper and activist Michael “Killer Mike” Render’s Greenwood banking platform has been postponed a second time, the company confirmed on Wednesday. In March, Greenwood co-founder Ryan Glover told CNN Business that the Black and Latinx-owned digital banking company’s planned early 2021 launch date was pushed back

By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business The United Kingdom will fail to meet its “historic climate promises” if the government doesn’t urgently put policies in place to reach its goal of decarbonizing the economy, according to its official climate watchdog. The Climate Change Committee, which advises the government on emissions targets, warned Thursday in its annual

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Canada Goose is icing out the fur trims on its jackets. The luxury clothier said Thursday it will stop buying fur by the end of this year and cease manufacturing fur products no later than the end of 2022. Since the company’s founding in 1957, wild coyote fur was the

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The risk to tech stocks from increased regulation isn’t new. But it’s clearly increasing. What’s happening: A House of Representatives committee just moved forward sweeping bills meant to rein in big tech companies like Google and Facebook. Meanwhile, authorities in the European Union and the United Kingdom have announced new

By Alexis Benveniste, CNN Business Coca-Cola thought personalized bottles might bring some summer fun to its fans. Instead, it met the internet. The company’s make-your-own label promotion lets customers write short messages on custom Coke bottles. Although Coca-Cola tried to block some slurs and trademarks, social media users were quick to discover that the company’s

By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business When walking into a traditional department store or browsing your favorite online retailer, shoppers typically navigate clothing options by first choosing a section based on its gender label: Men’s or Women’s, Girl’s or Boy’s. But some fashion-lovers don’t identify within this gender binary, and they, and in particular Gen Z

By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Amazon certainly wasn’t the first major corporation to arrive at the cannabis reform party, but it sure made one of the biggest entrances to-date when it publicly pledged to relax its drug testing policies and also to back federal legalization efforts. And now it’s a question of how many others

Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, will close its print and digital production as Beijing tightens its grip.

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Shoppers aren’t showing any signs of getting tired of Amazon Prime Day, even though some sellers had said they weren’t planning on offering deals this year. Amazon said that Prime Day, held this past Monday and Tuesday, was the biggest two-day sales period for third-party sellers in the company’s history.

By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Dating is hard. But at least it doesn’t require you to woo your beloved while dressed as a dolphin and they’re in full makeup, wearing a scarecrow outfit. Unless you’re a contestant on Netflix’s new series,”Sexy Beasts.” More fever dream than dating competition, “Sexy Beasts” is the latest reality series

By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The US economy is inching back to normal. But the recovery remains uneven and some states are lagging behind in the race to get back to pre-pandemic strength — especially New York. Although several states’ economies have already fully recovered — and are even outpacing — their pre-Covid levels of

By Paul R. La Monica and Rob McLean, CNN Business Morgan Stanley plans to ban workers from its New York headquarters if they have not received a Covid-19 vaccine. The rule will apply to non-vaccinated guests and clients as well. According to a source close to the company, Morgan Stanley said in a memo to