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By Jordan Valinsky and Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — Starbucks has opened its first cafe designed to give customers with disabilities a “more accessible store experience,” the company announced Friday in a news release. The move is part of a wider inclusivity initiative that Starbucks has undertaken to design easily navigable retail spaces

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Americans are on the verge of living through a historic economic event: inflation fully returning to normal — after a series of punishing interest rate hikes — without a recession. It’s a scenario that analysts refer to as a “soft landing.” The substantial progress seen so far

By Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — It’s an almost-inevitable part of any shopping trip. You enter a store to grab a few necessities and find yourself pushing, pulling, lifting and/or dragging your cart up the baking aisle as the one wheel with a mind of its own squeaks and stalls against the linoleum.

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — A whopping $355 million judgment and other punitive measures in the New York civil fraud trial against former president Donald Trump, his sons and the Trump Organization will deal a very big — but maybe not fatal — blow to their New York State-based businesses. At least

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — With more than half of the world’s population poised to vote in elections around the world this year, tech leaders, lawmakers and civil society groups are increasingly concerned that artificial intelligence could cause confusion and chaos for voters. Now, a group of leading tech companies say they

By Clare Duffy and Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Caitlin Clark made history Thursday as women’s college basketball’s all-time leading scorer. The Iowa star is also an economic powerhouse, putting a spotlight on the multi-million dollar earning potential of some athletes in a new era of profitability in college sports. Clark, 22, has

By Olesya Dmitracova, CNN London (CNN) — Nike will lay off about 2% of its employees, or close to 1,700 people, as the sportswear behemoth looks to cut as much as $2 billion in costs. “The actions that we’re taking put us in the position to right-size our organization to get after our biggest growth

By Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — US homebuilding dropped significantly in January, as winter storms and higher mortgage rates stymied progress on the housing shortage. Housing starts, a measure of new home construction, fell by 14.8%, compared with the previous month, according to data released Friday by the Census Bureau. It was the biggest

By Alicia Wallace, CNN New York (CNN) — Wholesale inflation, as measured by the Producer Price Index, rose more than expected in January, adding to what has so far been a disappointing inflation picture for the month. The Producer Price Index rose 0.3% last month, resulting in an annual increase of 0.9%, according to Bureau

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — You’re not imagining it: Gasoline prices are moving swiftly higher across the country. The national average has climbed 11 cents in the past week alone, to $3.28 a gallon, according to AAA. That means millions of Americans hitting the roads this Presidents’ Day weekend will be greeted

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — And just like that, two of the world’s largest economies are in technical recessions. On Thursday, Japan and the UK both reported their second consecutive negative quarters of gross domestic product, fitting the widely agreed-upon definition of a recession. Could the US, the world’s largest economy, be

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — A congressional committee investigating campus antisemitism took the unprecedented step of issuing multiple subpoenas to Harvard University on Friday, compelling the Ivy League school to turn over documents lawmakers are seeking. Rep. Virginia Foxx, the Republican chairwoman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, said she decided

By Juliana Liu and Diksha Madhok, CNN Hong Kong/New Delhi (CNN) — Japan’s stock market defied gloomy economic data to rally Friday, lifting broader Asian shares and ending the week on a buoyant note. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index closed above 38,000 points for the second day in a row, just a whisker off its

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN (CNN) — Artificial intelligence leader OpenAI introduced a new AI model called Sora which it claims can create “realistic” and “imaginative” 60-second videos from quick text prompts. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company said Sora is capable of generating videos up to 60 seconds in length from text

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Months after leaving the White House, former President Donald Trump began plotting his return to Wall Street. That return, delayed by years of regulatory and legal hurdles, is now on the verge of becoming a reality — and it could make Trump a fortune. US regulators have

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway sold off 10 million shares of Apple stock in the final three months of 2023, representing about 1% of its holdings in the company. The tech titan has become a major holding for the Oracle of Omaha’s company and is known as one

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — They’re soft, cuddly, and heading into a legal battle. The owners of Squishmallows, the popular egg-shaped stuffed animals, filed an intellectual property lawsuit against Build-A-Bear on Monday, claiming its new “Skoosherz” line is a knock-off version of its own. Build-a-Bear fired back with its own legal complaint,

By Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — After treading water for months, US mortgage rates jumped higher Thursday following a string of strong employment and inflation reports. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.77% in the week ending February 15, up from 6.64% the previous week, according to data from Freddie Mac. A year ago,