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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN (CNN) — Would you like a $2,000 gold bar at Costco with your $4.99 rotisserie chicken? Yes, Costco sells more than just toilet paper, office supplies and food items, and the company is quite effective at it. A 24-karat 1 oz. Gold Bar PAMP Suisse Lady Fortuna Veriscan was listed as

By Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — Quaker Oats on Friday recalled more than 40 granola bar and cereal products because they could be contaminated with salmonella. The affected foods include the classic Chewy granola bar variety pack, the chocolate-covered Chewy Dipps bars, puffed and protein cereals, and even granola bars that are included

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — When TikTok took off in 2020 — with short dancing or comedy clips providing much-needed entertainment to many users at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic — it launched a short-form video arms race. Suddenly, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and other social platforms were rushing to roll out

CNN By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — When TikTok took off in 2020 — with short dancing or comedy clips providing much-needed entertainment to many users at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic — it launched a short-form video arms race. Suddenly, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and other social platforms were rushing to roll

By Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — In the past two and half months, Harvard University President Claudine Gay has faced an onslaught of backlash from donors, politicians and business leaders over concerns of antisemitism at the nation’s oldest higher education institution. Barely three months after her historic inauguration as Harvard’s first Black woman

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Of all the bargaining goals set out by the United Auto Workers union in the just completed talks, none was more ambitious, or gained less traction in negotiations, than the idea of a four-day, 32-hour work week. Without a cut in pay, too. That didn’t happen, at

By Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Real estate agents’ fees are always negotiable. But it doesn’t always feel that way to the homeseller, who typically pays the commission. That fee, which is usually between 5% and 6% of the final sales price in the United States, is typically split evenly between the homeseller’s

By Samantha Delouya, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — In March 1973, electronics manufacturer RCA Corporation touted its “new low-price color TV” in the New York Times. The cost was $379.95 for a 15-inch model ­— the equivalent of a $2,694.32 splurge in current dollars. These days ­— in an era of above-average inflation ­— it

By Michelle Toh and Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — ERNIE Bot 4.0, run by Chinese tech giant Baidu, is touted to be in the same league as industry darling chatbot GPT-4. Unveiled in October and launched to paying subscribers in November, ERNIE 4.0, an upgraded version of Baidu’s first ChatGPT competitor, “is not

By Sabrina Souza and Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — Harvard President Claudine Gay submitted corrections to two scholarly articles published in 2001 and 2017 following allegations of plagiarism, University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain told CNN on Friday. Harvard commissioned an independent review of Gay’s writings following the plagiarism accusations. Gay denied the allegations, saying in a

By Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — As housing in the US has become increasingly unaffordable over the past few years, the number of people experiencing homelessness surged to its highest level on record this year, according to an annual survey taken in January. The number of unhoused people in the United States jumped by 12%

By Matt Egan and Laura Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Early applications at Harvard declined by 17% to four-year lows, according to figures released Thursday. Harvard College accepted 692 students for the Class of 2028 from a pool of 7,921 applicants. The acceptance rate was 8.7%, up from 7.6% last year. Early admission applicants to Harvard spiked above

By Sergio Padilla, CNN New York (CNN) — A bird flu resurgence sent egg prices through the roof this past year – and it could happen again next year. As of December 11th, data from the US Department of Agriculture shows that 426 commercial chicken flocks and 586 backyard flocks have tested positive for HPAI

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday ordered Commonwealth Financial Systems, a debt collection agency specializing in medical debt, to shut down as a result of what CFPB determined were illegal collection practices. Specifically, the CFPB said that the company, which is based in Dickson City, Pennsylvania,

By Alex Hardie, CNN (CNN) — The Lufthansa Group plans to resume flights to Tel Aviv beginning January 8, 2024, nearly three months after it suspended flights to Israel’s largest airport due to security concerns. “Lufthansa Group continues to monitor the security situation in Israel closely and is in close contact with the local and international

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser sounds increasingly confident that the American economy will avoid the recession that so many had penciled in for 2023. “Recent data certainly give more evidence that the width of the runway for a soft landing has gotten much bigger,” Lael Brainard,

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — With millions of people expected to fly in the coming days, Southwest Airlines is vowing there won’t be a repeat of last year’s operational meltdown that ruined Christmas for travelers. Southwest CEO Bob Jordan said this week that “it will never happen again, I promise you that,”

By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — Global coal demand is likely to have peaked this year, and could drop by about 2% over the next three years as China brings more renewable energy sources online, the International Energy Agency said Friday. It’s the first time the Paris-based agency has predicted a drop in appetite

By Caitlin Danaher and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — The Duke of Sussex was awarded £140,600 ($179,000) on Friday after the UK High Court ruled he was the subject of “extensive” phone hacking by Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) from 2006 to 2011. Justice Fancourt ruled that 15 stories published about Prince Harry by MGN

By Juliana Liu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — This week, Chinese authorities across the board intensified efforts to boost growth, but those attempts may not be enough to fix the ailing economy. On Friday, the country’s central bank pumped a massive amount of liquidity into the banking system as part of broader efforts to support