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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business New York (CNN) — Grab physical DVDs while you still can. Netflix mailed its last red-enveloped DVD last month. Now Best Buy will stop selling DVDs and Blu-ray discs at the end of the 2023 holiday season, too. Best Buy says that streaming has made DVDs obsolete and it can

By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN New York (CNN) — Imagine you’re at the movies: The lights have dimmed, the previews are over, chatter dwindles to a hush. You take a sip of soda through a straw. You pop some artificially buttery popcorn into your mouth. You tear open a bag of Skittles and start to chew.

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk’s social media company, X (formerly known as Twitter), broke the law when it fired one of its employees for “exercising their right to protected concerted activity” following X’s return-to-office mandate, according to a complaint from the National Labor Relations Board. The complaint alleges that a high-ranking X

By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — The BBC said Friday that a group of its journalists covering Israel’s war with Hamas were held at gunpoint and assaulted by Israeli police in Tel Aviv. The disturbing incident, which the BBC said occurred on Thursday night, came as the team of three journalists drove to their hotel

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN New York (CNN) — Many schools, psychologists and safety groups are urging parents to disable their children’s social media apps over mounting concerns that Hamas plans to disseminate graphic videos of hostages captured in the Israel-Gaza war. Disabling an app or implementing restrictions, such as filtering out certain words and

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Ford is recalling certain models of the 2020-2022 Explorer due to a rollaway risk if the parking brake isn’t applied. There are 238,364 impacted vehicles in the recall, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said. It said a “disconnected driveshaft” could cause the car to roll away

By Brian Fung, CNN Washington (CNN) — The European Commission sent a warning letter Friday to Google and its subsidiary YouTube over disinformation and graphic content linked to the Hamas-Israel conflict, in the European Union’s latest effort to scrutinize Big Tech’s handling of the war. The letter from European Commissioner Thierry Breton, addressed to Google

By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — At least one journalist was killed and six others injured on Friday in southern Lebanon when Israel fired artillery into the area they were gathered. The incident — which impacted journalists from Reuters, the Agence France-Presse wire service and Al Jazeera — marks one of the worst press catastrophes

By Nathaniel Meyersohn and Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN New York (CNN) — Starbucks on Wednesday criticized a message by its union about Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israeli civilians. The union, Starbucks Workers United, posted “Solidarity with Palestine” on social media platform X above an image of a bulldozer operated by Hamas tearing down a fence on

By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — Global energy prices are finishing the week the way they started — shooting higher as a cocktail of risks to supply have put investors on edge. The price of Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, rose more than 4% Friday to trade at nearly $90 a barrel. West

By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN (CNN) — UAW President Shawn Fain said the union would not expand its strike against the Big Three automakers on Friday, but that the UAW stood ready to add more workers to the picket lines at any time as its labor action enters a new phase. “We are

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Persistently high inflation took a toll on Americans’ attitudes this month as many began to pay back student loans following a three-year hiatus. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index fell 7% in October from the prior month, according to a preliminary reading released Friday. Sentiment in

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer and his wife Batia are quitting a Harvard executive board in protest of how university leaders have responded to Hamas’ terror attacks on Israel. “Unfortunately, our faith in the University’s leadership has been broken and we cannot in good faith continue to support

WCVB, HARVARDPSC, INSTAGRAM, CNN, harvardpsc/Instagram By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer and his wife Batia are quitting a Harvard executive board in protest of how university leaders have responded to Hamas’ terror attacks on Israel. “Unfortunately, our faith in the University’s leadership has been broken and we cannot in

By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — Israel’s vast tech sector has seen its fair share of crises, from financial downturns and the Covid-19 pandemic to periodic flare-ups in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Each time, the industry has bounced back, demonstrating why the country of just 9 million people is known as the world’s “startup nation.”

By Chris Isidore and Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Kaiser Permanente reached a tentative deal with the unions representing 75,000 employees, following the largest-ever health care strike in US history. “The frontline healthcare workers of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions are excited to have reached a tentative agreement with Kaiser Permanente,” the union coalition

By Krystal Hur, CNN (CNN) — The Israel-Hamas war is sending investors in search of defensive assets. Israel declared war on Hamas Sunday after the Palestinian militant group launched a brutal attack that killed at least 1,300 people. Stock markets initially fell on Monday, before rebounding. But investors have since bought up shares of virtually

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon kicked off third-quarter earnings season Friday with a stern warning to investors: “Now may be the most dangerous time the world has seen in decades,” he wrote in the company’s report. The wars in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza “may have far-reaching impacts

By Michelle Toh and Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — Microsoft has completed its takeover of Activision Blizzard, the maker of “Call of Duty” and other hit video games, closing one of the biggest tech deals of all time. The company said in a filing Friday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that Activision (ATVI)