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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Doritos is betting on a new way to get people addicted to their tortilla chips: booze. The PepsiCo-owned brand is releasing a new spirit based off of Doritos’ nacho cheese flavor that “tastes just like the real thing,” according to a press release. The chip maker partnered

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Choice Hotels, which owns a number of budget lodging brands, including Comfort Inn, is getting more aggressive in its attempt to acquire its rival Wyndham Hotels. On Tuesday, Choice said it will expand its several monthslong hostile takeover bid of the Days Inn owner by taking its

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay has gained the unanimous support of the university’s board, Harvard’s highest governing body said in a statement Tuesday, giving Gay significant cover to remain in her position after a tumultuous week in which many donors and politicians have called for her ouster.

By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — The maker of Dove soap and Cif floor cleaner is being investigated by the UK antitrust regulator over concerns that it is “misleading” shoppers about how environmentally friendly its products are. An “initial review” into Unilever’s marketing tactics “uncovered a range of concerning practices,” the Competition and Markets

By Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The billionaire founder of Chinese online shopping giant JD.com is rallying the troops and calling for change at his company, even as he blamed himself for “mismanagement.” Richard Liu, chairman of JD.com (JD), one of China’s largest online shopping platforms, has told employees that the Beijing-based firm

By Ally Barnard and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — “The Boy and the Heron,” the latest work from beloved Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, has become his first film to top the North American box office. The movie earned just under $13 million in its opening weekend, the biggest ever opening in the United

By Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — In a momentous decision that could chip away at Google’s firm control of its Android app store, a federal jury said Monday evening that Google’s app marketplace is an illegal monopoly. The verdict in a years-long battle between Epic Games — maker of the hit video game “Fortnite” —

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Hasbro is slashing nearly 20% of its workforce amid an ongoing slump in toy sales. Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks announced layoffs for 1,100 workers in a Monday memo to employees, cuts which come in addition to the roughly 800 jobs eliminated earlier this year. Cocks said the decision to

By Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — Digital publisher The Arena Group, which operates household brands such as Sports Illustrated and The Street, fired its chief executive on Monday amid a larger C-suite bloodbath, a spokesperson for the company told CNN. A spokesperson for The Arena Group declined to go into further detail to explain the

CNN By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — A day after Elon Musk restored the X accounts of notorious right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his website, Infowars, the platform is actively promoting Jones’ account to other users, giving the fringe figure a major platform to air his deceptive and dangerous views. Conspiratorial posts

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — A day after Elon Musk restored the X accounts of notorious right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his website, Infowars, the platform is actively promoting Jones’ account to other users, giving the fringe figure a major platform to air his deceptive and dangerous views. Conspiratorial posts from Jones’

By Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — Hannah Giles, the chief executive of Project Veritas, said Monday she has stepped down from her role at the right-wing group “effective immediately,” after discovering evidence that the organization has engaged in “past illegalities.” “Though I had high hopes when I joined the organizations, I stepped into an unsalvageable mess — one

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — If you turned to Google these past few months to make sense of the Israel-Hamas war, you aren’t alone. The tech giant released its 2023 Year in Search on Monday, and the data indicates that people around the world sought out information around Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel

By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — The National Football League is in an uncomfortable position. The sports and entertainment juggernaut is in talks to renew its $100 million deal with Elon Musk’s troubled social media platform, X, formerly known as Twitter, The Wall Street Journal reported in November. But Musk’s unhinged behavior and the surge in

By Brian Fung, CNN Washington (CNN) — Elon Musk has asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on whether the Securities and Exchange Commission violated the Tesla CEO’s free-speech rights when it required, as part of a 2018 settlement, that some of his social media posts be vetted in advance. The petition appeared on the

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN New York (CNN) — Microsoft says it’s giving labor leaders a seat at the table for discussions about the development and implementation of artificial intelligence technology. The software giant, which is a major investor in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, said on Monday that it struck a deal with the AFL-CIO to create an

By Eva Rothenberg and Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Claudine Gay, Harvard University’s embattled president, has strong institutional backing as she faces a flurry of criticism over her handling of alleged antisemitism at one of the nation’s most prestigious universities. In a letter to school officials, the Executive Committee of the Harvard Alumni

By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — The most disadvantaged people in the United Kingdom are no better-off than they were 15 years ago, according to a new report, which finds a “yawning gap between those who can get by and those stuck at the bottom.” The grim conclusion about inequality in one of the

CNN By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Billionaire Len Blavatnik is joining the list of frustrated Harvard donors closing their checkbooks to the university. Blavatnik’s family foundation has suspended donations to Harvard in the wake of President Claudine Gay’s disastrous testimony before Congress, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN. Blavatnik,