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Capital One accused of ‘cheating millions of customers’ out of interest rate payments

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Capital One is being sued by the US government’s consumer watchdog agency for “cheating millions of consumers” and not paying more than $2 billion in interest to holders of its high-interest savings accounts. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) accuses Capital One of freezing the interest rates

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Trump’s reelection prompts record reader donations to The Guardian in new ‘Trump bump’

By Brian Stelter, CNN New York (CNN) — There’s a new “Trump bump” materializing for some news outlets, though it’s showing up differently than it did the first time Donald Trump was elected president. That’s the assertion from The Guardian, the British newspaper with an ambitious American arm. According to internal data shared with CNN,

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Soon to be out of a job, Meta’s fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories

KCAL, KCBS, CNN By Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Just hours after Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg announced last Tuesday that the social media giant would eliminate its US-based fact-checkers, the iconic hills above Los Angeles began to smolder. As fire crews scrambled in vain to contain the resulting firestorm, the fact-checking partners, still

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The great social media migration: Sudden influx of US users to RedNote connects Chinese and Americans like never before

By Eric Cheung, Joyce Jiang and Hassan Tayir, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — As Supreme Court justices ponder the future of TikTok in the United States, a growing number of American social media users have responded by moving to an unlikely alternative: Xiaohongshu, a hugely popular social media app in China. The app, which means

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Apple backs its diversity policies, calling anti-DEI proposal ‘restricting’

By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — Apple’s board of directors has recommended shareholders vote against a conservative think tank’s proposal to consider scrapping the tech giant’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “At Apple, we believe that how we conduct ourselves is as critical to Apple’s success as making the best products in the world.

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