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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — A United Airlines round-trip ticket from Denver to Dallas in late March is advertised for $91. But checking one bag at the airport both ways will cost an extra $80 — nearly as much as the flight. Checked bag fees are hitting record highs as airlines up

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Conestoga, PA (CNN) — I drove out to Pennsylvania’s rural Amish country to see a man about a wagon. I was looking to nail down the answer to a question I’ve had since 2015 when I traveled to England on a work trip. Back when I was motoring through London, very

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — The long-rumored recession has been postponed – or perhaps cancelled altogether. The soft-landing vibes are real. Inflation is cooling. The economy is growing at a shockingly strong pace. And unemployment hasn’t been this low for this long since the late 1960s. And yet, hidden behind these boomy-economic

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Change Healthcare, the health insurance IT giant disrupted for days by a cyberattack, on Friday announced plans for a temporary loan program to get money flowing to health care providers affected by the outage. It’s a stop-gap measure meant to give some financial relief to health care providers, which

By Gregory Wallace and Chris Isidore, CNN Washington DC (CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration has flagged more safety issues for two troubled families of Boeing planes, the latest in a series of issues at the embattled aircraft maker. The issues involve engine anti-ice systems on the 737 Max and larger 787 Dreamliner. While the

By Samantha Delouya, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — The minimum wage for fast food workers in California is set to increase to $20 per hour on April 1, but one curious carve-out in the new minimum wage law has ignited controversy in the state. And Panera Bread has been caught in the middle. The law

By Chris Isidore and Gregory Wallace, CNN New York (CNN) — Boeing said it is in talks to buy Spirit AeroSystems, a major supplier that was part of Boeing until a 2005 sale and one that was also involved in an Alaska Airlines mid-air door plug blowout. Negotiations were first reported earlier Friday by the

CNN By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — America’s gyms are adjusting their strategies as more of their members take weight loss drugs. Luxury gyms such as Life Time and Equinox are acquiring weight loss clinics with doctors who can prescribe GLP-1s, the powerful new class of medications that has proven to be highly

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — 2024 was supposed to be the year consumers could start breathing again. After more than 20 months of inflation and higher borrowing costs, investors, economists and — eventually — Federal Reserve officials said they expected the economy to soften this year, allowing the central bank to finally

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Ticket prices to see one of Caitlin Clark’s final home games for Iowa are taking off since Clark announced her intention to enter the 2024 WNBA Draft. The tickets for her last regular season home game on Sunday against Ohio State are still the most expensive for

By John Towfighi, CNN (CNN) — Comic-book store owner Jermaine Exum couldn’t believe his ears when a customer asked to reserve a copy of the upcoming 960-page “DC versus Marvel” comics collection. “I said, ‘What now? Let me make sure you get what?,’” the Greensboro, North Carolina businessman and comics fan said. “Because I thought

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — America’s gyms are adjusting their strategies as more of their members take weight loss drugs. Luxury gyms such as Life Time are acquiring weight loss clinics with doctors who can prescribe GLP-1s, the powerful new class of medications that has proven to be highly effective at helping

CNN By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — Finance officials from the world’s biggest economies began talks this week on introducing a global minimum tax on billionaires. The representatives of the G20 countries discussed the proposal at a summit in São Paulo, Brazil, two years after a landmark agreement showed the world could act together

By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — Finance officials from the world’s biggest economies began talks this week on introducing a global minimum tax on billionaires. The representatives of the G20 countries discussed the proposal at a summit in São Paulo, Brazil, two years after a landmark agreement showed the world could act together in

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Boeing has agreed to pay $51 million for violating exports controls of military technology, including employees in China downloading sensitive data from numerous defense aircraft and missiles. The complaint charges that three Boeing employees in China downloaded data 25 times between 2013 and 2017 related to three

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN New York (CNN) — Fisker, the electric vehicle company founded by auto designer Henrik Fisker, announced in its fourth quarter earnings Thursday that it might not have enough money to survive another year. The company announced there was “substantial doubt about Fisker’s ability to continue as a going concern.” In order

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Chick-fil-A is telling customers to “please discard” Polynesian sauce dipping cups that were ordered over the past few weeks. “The Polynesian Sauce dipping cups may contain a different sauce that includes wheat and soy allergens,” Chick-fil-A said in a short note on its website. The cups were

By Parija Kavilanz, CNN New York (CNN) — Stanley has a problem. Whenever one of its new tumblers hits the the market, online and in store, mayhem tends to ensue. It’s because the Stanley tumbler is arguably one of the most viral products of the moment. While the brand is enjoying unprecedented popularity of its

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Large employers did not make many changes to their abortion coverage after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision that allowed states to ban or severely restrict abortion, according to a new analysis from KFF. Some 12% of large firms whose biggest plan covers abortion under most or all circumstances added

By Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Many millennials are currently grasping in frustration at long-held American Dreams like homeownership, a steady job and an affordable cost of living. However, over the next twenty years, Millennials are poised to inherit some $90 trillion of assets and become the richest generation in history – but