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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Champagne sales have lost some of their pop in 2023 following a few record-breaking years of sales spurred by the end of Covid-19 lockdowns. Comité Champagne, a trade association representing more than 16,000 winegrowers and 320 Champagne houses, said in a new report that total shipments last

By Pete Muntean and Ross Levitt, CNN (CNN) — Boeing says it will give airlines more oversight of its facilities following the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 incident in which a part of the plane fell off mid-flight. The plane maker said Monday that in addition to extra quality control inspections on the 737 production line, it will allow

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Peacock scored a touchdown Saturday for its first NFL playoff game exclusively shown on the NBCUniversal-owned streamer, registering record ratings and internet usage for the matchup in the freezing cold between the Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins. The “Peacock Exclusive Wild Card” game garnered 23 million

By Junko Ogura, Akanksha Sharma and Marc Stewart, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — A domestic flight operated by Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways (ANA) returned to its departure airport on Saturday after a crack was found in a window in the cockpit of the Boeing 737-800 plane, the airline said Monday. The crack was discovered about

By Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — Six people were arrested Sunday over a suspected plot to disrupt the London Stock Exchange (LSE) when the market opened for trade Monday, London’s Metropolitan Police has said. Detectives began an investigation after information was passed to the Metropolitan Police by the Daily Express newspaper Friday. It was alleged that activists

By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — Germany’s economy shrank last year for the first time since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, official data showed Monday, increasing the risk of an economic contraction in the wider euro area. Gross domestic product was 0.3% lower in 2023 than in the previous year, according to Germany’s

By Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Almost 40% of jobs around the world could be affected by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), a trend that is likely to deepen inequality, according to the International Monetary Fund. In a Sunday blog post, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva called for governments to establish social safety

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The five wealthiest people on Earth have become a whole lot richer in recent years. Since 2020, these billionaires’ net worth has skyrocketed 114% to a total of $869 billion, after taking inflation into account, according to Oxfam’s annual inequality report, released Sunday. If current trends continue, the world

By Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — As frigid temperatures blast much of the United States and threaten more storms in the coming days, airports across the country are experiencing thousands of delays and cancellations for the third consecutive day. As of Sunday afternoon, more than 4,000 flights within, into or out of the

By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Business Insider and its parent company, Axel Springer, said Sunday that they stood by the outlet’s reporting that Neri Oxman, a prominent former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the wife of billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, had plagiarized in her doctoral dissertation. In a note Sunday

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Monday, January 15, celebrates the birthday of celebrated civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Though the federal holiday coincides with King’s actual birthday this year, it always falls on the third Monday of January. Just four days after King’s assassination in 1968, US Rep. John

By Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — Airlines are still digging themselves out from an intense day of storms that battered the eastern half of the United States on Friday and saw every state under some type of weather-related alert. As of early Saturday evening, more than 1,200 flights across the country were canceled,

By Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — There’s a dream solution to America’s housing crisis and to its increasingly deserted downtowns: Convert the empty offices into homes. Across the country, cities like New York, Boston and Cleveland are embracing the idea of residential retrofitting and providing incentives to do so. The Biden administration is

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN (CNN) — Companies big and small showed off new AI-powered products and their AI-inspired visions for the future at the world’s biggest tech convention this week in Las Vegas. There were pillows that can reduce snoring, mirrors that can detect your mood and innovations from pet-like companions to cars that

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Boeing and US air travel are still facing the fallout a week after the dramatic in-flight door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 last Friday. The door plug — a portion of the plane’s fuselage the manufacturer can put in place instead of an

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — The tech sector has kicked off the new year with a spate of fresh job cuts that are coming at the same time as the industry is doubling down on investments into artificial intelligence. While AI tools putting workers out of jobs has been a major point of anxiety in Silicon Valley

By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — After a piece of software incorrectly showed that money had gone missing, a trusted, centuries-old British government corporation used its financial and legal might to convict and bankrupt hundreds of people who ran its branches. Some family members say their loved-ones were left so distressed they took their

Analysis by Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — When Taiwan heads to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president and legislature, their votes will be keenly watched at home and abroad. That’s because the self-ruled island of 23 million people has an outsized impact on the global business and trade, mainly because

By Maria Sole Campinoti and Rob Frehse, CNN (CNN) — A New York judge ordered Donald Trump to pay $392,638 in legal fees to The New York Times after his failed lawsuit against the news outlet and its journalists over the disclosure of his tax information in a 2018 Times article, according to court documents.

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — Microsoft is back on top. After trailing behind Apple for the majority of the past decade, Microsoft is the world’s most valuable publicly traded company as of market close on Friday. The tech giant’s stock (MSFT) closed at $388.47 a share on Friday, giving it a market