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By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — In good economic times and bad, people’s self-control to spend within their means on gifts during the holiday season flies out the window. For decades, credit cards bore the brunt of compulsive holiday spending habits. But increasingly, they’re sharing the spotlight with Buy Now, Pay Later companies.

By Jamiel Lynch and Carolyn Sung, CNN (CNN) — Two Jewish students from the University of Pennsylvania have filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Ivy League institution, alleging it “has transformed itself into incubation lab for virulent anti-Jewish hatred, harassment and discrimination.” In their suit, filed Tuesday in the US District Court For the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,

CNN, KYW By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — The president of Harvard University apologized in an interview with the school’s student newspaper after facing widespread condemnation for her disastrous congressional testimony this week, in which she and other university presidents failed to explicitly say calls for genocide of Jewish people constituted bullying and harassment on

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — European Union lawmakers struck a deal Friday agreeing to one of the world’s first major comprehensive artificial intelligence laws. The landmark legislation, called the AI Act, sets up a regulatory framework to promote the development of AI while addressing the risks associated with the rapidly evolving technology. The legislation bans

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — It can take 20 minutes to “fast charge” an electric car up to 80%. But what if you could just change the batteries like they were AAs in a toy, and be back on the road fully charged in a handful of minutes? It seems like an obvious solution,

By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — The president of Harvard University apologized in an interview with the school’s student newspaper after facing widespread condemnation for her disastrous congressional testimony this week, in which she and other university presidents failed to explicitly say calls for genocide of Jewish people constituted bullying and harassment on campus. “I

By Brian Fung, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — A group of US senators has introduced a bill seeking to make the lives of sports fans and concertgoers easier, a year after Taylor Swift ticket sales were massively disrupted by a technical fiasco at one of the nation’s largest event ticketers, Ticketmaster. The legislation, known as

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Billionaire investor David Rubenstein is in discussions to potentially acquire Major League Baseball’s Baltimore Orioles, a person familiar with the matter told CNN. Rubenstein, a Baltimore native and co-founder of The Carlyle Group, has been in talks to buy the Orioles for some time, but a deal

By Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — Rabbi David Wolpe, a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Divinity School, announced his resignation on Thursday from the university’s Antisemitism Advisory Group. Wolpe, who had been instated earlier this year as the Anti-Defamation League’s first rabbinic fellow, wrote in a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, that

By Anna Cooban and Maya Szaniecki, CNN London/Paris (CNN) — In a city brimming with bakeries and artisan pastry shops, a red, white and green alien has landed. It goes by the name of Krispy Kreme. Even before the American donut chain opened the doors of its first store in France, in central Paris, at

By Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — Wayne Murray clinched the $10 million prize this month in the New York Lottery’s 200X scratch-off game – just 16 months after he won the same amount in its Black Titanium scratch-off game, the state agency that runs the games said. For his latest jackpot – as with his

By Chris Isidore and Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Numerous college presidents are facing criticism about their responses to antisemitism on their campuses. But none more than University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill. Some have called for the resignations of Harvard University President Claudine Gay and MIT President Sally Kornbluth after they testified

Dollar General is joining the growing list of retail chains reversing course on self-checkout technology

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN Business (CNN) — In Morocco, a startup is building affordable homes using a material that is ubiquitous: soil. Eco-dôme Maroc was founded in 2016. It applies local traditions to modern technology to construct dome-shaped buildings that it says are cheaper, more environmentally sustainable and more energy-efficient than regular concrete homes. Founder

By Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — The UK government is considering an antitrust probe of Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI, saying the deal that resolved a recent and dramatic leadership crisis at the AI startup raises questions about possible impacts to competition. UK regulators at the country’s Competition and Markets Authority said Friday that they are

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — The growing chorus of donors, politicians, business leaders and other prominent figures calling for the immediate ouster of University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill has reached a crescendo after her disastrous testimony at a House hearing earlier this week. During Tuesday’s House hearing, Magill, along with the

By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — “By Washington Post Staff.” That was the byline affixed to the vast majority of The WaPo’s stories Thursday as the newspaper’s unionized employees staged a full-day strike against the Jeff Bezos-owned outlet — an act of protest not deployed against the company since the 1970s. As the public got

By Alicia Wallace, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — The US economy notched another solid month of job growth, with an added lift from actors and autoworkers coming off the picket lines. Employers added 199,000 jobs in November, and the unemployment rate dipped to 3.7% from 3.9% the month before, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday.

By Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has vowed to strengthen fiscal policy in 2024 to boost its flagging economy. The announcement Friday followed a meeting of top Communist party officials and came just days after Moody’s downgraded its outlook on China’s credit rating to negative from stable. The ratings agency on Tuesday

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is in the giving mood this holiday season. Scott announced Wednesday $2.15 billion in donations over the past year on her website, Yield Giving. She said in the post that the nonprofit donated to 360 organizations, “every one of whom could use more allies.”