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By Natasha Chen, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Disney raised prices on many of its theme park offerings today, coinciding with the start of the company’s new fiscal year. But consumers aren’t pushing back the way they did a few years ago. Disney’s price hikes are an annual October ritual for the company, and it’s

By John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — Wall Street rolled into 2026 on a hot streak and continued with a booming first half. Profits surged, fueled by massive spending on artificial intelligence, elevated trading activity in a volatile market and dealmaking that has benefited from a relaxed regulatory environment under the Trump administration. Wall

By Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Monday aimed at bringing down near-record diesel prices by waiving restrictions on cheaper red-dyed diesel. The order, unveiled at a campaign event in Nebraska, a state hit hard by the spike in diesel prices, amounts to a pre-election tax holiday. Red-dyed

By Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — The White House is refusing to allow Politico on Air Force One on Monday, which means the news organization cannot fulfill its press corps pool responsibilities. A Politico spokesperson confirmed that the publication was excluded from the out-of-town travel pool, a small group of reporters who travel with the

By Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — Mark Thompson, who has led CNN for the past three years, will remain at the helm as the Ellison family acquires the news network’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery. With the merger of Paramount and Warner set to take effect Tuesday, the combined company, named Skydance, announced its leadership

By Lisa Eadicicco, CNN (CNN) — In 2024, software engineer Laura Housh began using AI as a helper for coding and other tasks. Two years later, Housh says she has a love-hate relationship with AI. “I’ve tried to use it for coding, and I just can’t get behind it,” she said. AI can provide direction

By John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — Wall Street is gearing up for Anthropic’s expected mega initial public offering, a major test of investors’ appetite for one of the AI industry’s leading firms. Just weeks ago, its CEO called for an industry-wide slowdown over growing safety concerns. The IPO could take place as soon

By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — American railroads were once the envy of the world and the engine of its industrial age. But that hasn’t been the case for more than half a century. Brightline, founded in 2012, wanted to change all that. The Florida private rail company ran yellow trains at near high speed

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN (CNN) — Milwaukee-based couple Mariza and Geffrey Gordon have been living paycheck to paycheck, saddled with a number of debts. They want to break out of that cycle. They were a dual-income couple when they signed up for CNN’s Savings Challenge, but soon after Mariza learned she was getting laid off

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN (CNN) — Figuring out how to strategize paying down your debts while also saving for emergencies and big goals is a common dilemma for many. Douglas Boneparth, a certified financial planner and founder of Bone Fide Wealth, tackles that quandary head on in this week’s Ask the Expert for CNN’s Savings

By Stephanie Yang, CNN (CNN) — Seven years after founding a robotics startup in San Francisco, Rajat Bhageria is confronting a daunting new task: building robots without any help from China. Like most US-based robotics firms, Chef Robotics has come to rely heavily on Chinese components to make the robot arms it sells to food

By David Goldman, Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Cherry-picking one data point from a monthly economic report is neither fair nor necessarily telling. But one statistic stood out in September’s mostly “meh” jobs report like a sore thumb. The unemployment rate for Black Americans rose from 6% to 7%, according to the Bureau of Labor

By Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — The combined Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery will be named Skydance, CEO David Ellison announced Friday, a few days before the merger’s completion. Ellison said Skydance will be a “creative-first home for bold, quality storytelling.” Skydance was the name of the production company that Ellison founded in 2006. The name originally

By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — All it took was $4 a gallon gas to make Americans embrace hybrid cars. But with limited offerings from the big Detroit automakers, people are turning to their Asian rivals in droves. Korean automaker Hyundai reported Thursday that hybrid sales rose 39% in the third quarter, while Kia’s hybrid

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — The Topo Chico shortage of 2026 is soon coming to an end. Fans of the carbonated water brand have largely been without Topo Chico since February, when problems at the Mexico facility forced owner Coca-Cola to temporarily cease orders of the water. In a statement given to

By Matt Egan, Tami Luhby, Nina Giraldo, CNN (CNN) — As the Trump administration deliberates how to fight historically high gas and diesel prices, a growing number of US states are taking matters into their own hands. The state-level action has taken place across the country in recent days and weeks, spanning red states like

By Stephanie Yang, Yoonjung Seo, CNN (CNN) — South Korea has pushed back against a $54 billion investment announced by the Trump administration, turning a struggling project to export natural gas from Alaska into another potential sticking point in the allies’ long-running negotiations over trade. On Wednesday Trump touted the figure as part of a

By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — The US labor market hit a soft patch in September as the economy added just 29,000 jobs and the unemployment rate increased to 4.2%, new Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed Friday. The latest jobs report – and the final official employment snapshot before the midterm elections – also

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Affordable Care Act $500 refund checks are in the mail to nearly a million Americans, along with a letter from President Donald Trump touting his healthcare accomplishments and casting blame on his predecessor. The Treasury Department began sending the one-time payments on Wednesday to more than 950,000 Obamacare

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — Last month, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in more than three years, as it tries to bring inflation under control. But higher rates make borrowing more expensive for consumers and businesses — one reason mortgage rates have climbed to a three-year high in recent