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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — McDonald’s anticipated new value menu is rolling out to US restaurants Tuesday, marking the chain’s biggest change in several years. The “McValue” menu category is a new, budget-friendly attempt at luring back customers who have been put off by McDonald’s higher prices. The popular $5 meal deal

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Americans won’t have to worry about unpaid medical bills damaging their credit reports and scores much longer. The Biden administration is finalizing a rule Tuesday that will end the inclusion of medical debt on credit reports and ban lenders from using certain medical information in loan decisions. The rule

By Juliana Liu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The US Department of Defense has added Chinese tech companies Tencent, a social media and gaming giant, and CATL, the world’s largest battery maker, to a list of firms that it alleges work with China’s military. Inclusion on the Pentagon list does not result in any immediate

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Potential home shoppers in the Northeast and Midwest may be in for disappointment: Despite signs of cooling in the last year’s intensively competitive housing market, a new report from Zillow says some areas will stay especially competitive this year. The Zillow report predicts the hottest housing markets for 2025;

By Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump is still pushing for universal tariffs on imports from overseas as his trade advisers are working to craft a strategy to translate his campaign pledges into policy, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. In private discussions, aides are still focused on drawing up plans

By Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — A journalist said Sunday her X account was suspended and links to a recent article of hers were blocked on the platform after she published a piece debunking online theories that an Elon Musk fan account was actually the billionaire himself. The journalist, Jacqueline Sweet, wrote a piece for

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Meta has named three new members to its board of directors, including Dana White, the Ultimate Fighting Championship chief executive who played a key role in the reelection of his longtime friend, President-elect Donald Trump. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced White’s appointment — along with Charlie Songhurst,

By David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — McDonald’s is the latest US corporation — and among the largest — to back off some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices, as a Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action and conservative backlash to those programs continues to lead businesses to reevaluate their diversity pledges. The company

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — President Joe Biden decided to block the $14 billion takeover of US Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel even though some top US officials did not believe there were sufficient national security grounds to kill the deal, a US official told CNN. The controversial decision to block the

Story by Reuters (Reuters) — The US government has sued a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, accusing it of pushing borrowers into unaffordable loans—so customers would buy homes from the company’s manufactured housing business. The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed the lawsuit Monday against Berkshire’s Clayton Homes manufactured housing division. The complaint alleges

By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — The attacker who drove a truck through New Orleans’ Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day used Meta smart glasses to scout the scene weeks earlier, according to the FBI. Shamsud-Din Jabbar stayed at a rental home in New Orleans beginning October 30 and wore the smart glasses to record

By Liam Reilly, CNN New York (CNN) — Disney’s Hulu + Live TV service and Fubo will merge, creating one of the country’s largest pay TV providers, the companies announced Monday in a surprise deal that will potentially allow the Venu Sports streaming service to move forward. Under the terms of the agreement, Disney will

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — Some young Americans had a tough time finding a job last year. Companies were slow to hire in 2024 as workers quit their jobs less frequently, according to government data — a far cry from the red-hot job market in the aftermath of the pandemic. Economists referred to

By Chris Isidore, Matt Egan and David Goldman, CNN New York (CNN) — US Steel and Nippon, whose $14.3 billion merger was blocked by President Joe Biden last week, filed a lawsuit against the US government Monday, claiming Biden’s executive order to bar the companies from combining was signed for “purely political reasons.” “Today’s legal

By David Goldman, Ella Nilsen and Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Monday announced an executive action that will permanently ban future offshore oil and gas development in parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a way that could be especially difficult for the incoming Trump administration to undo. Biden’s executive

By Junko Ogura and Juliana Liu, CNN Tokyo/Hong Kong (CNN) — Nippon Steel, whose multibillion-dollar proposal to buy struggling US Steel was blocked by President Joe Biden last week, says it is considering taking legal action against the US government. “We are considering this as an important option,” Tadashi Imai, president of Nippon Steel, told

CNN By Associated Press (AP) — New York’s new toll for drivers entering the center of Manhattan debuted Sunday, meaning many people will pay $9 to access the busiest part of the Big Apple during peak hours. The toll, known as congestion pricing, is meant to reduce traffic gridlock in the densely packed city while

By Associated Press (AP) — New York’s new toll for drivers entering the center of Manhattan debuted Sunday, meaning many people will pay $9 to access the busiest part of the Big Apple during peak hours. The toll, known as congestion pricing, is meant to reduce traffic gridlock in the densely packed city while also

By Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — United Airlines flights will have access to Elon Musk’s Starlink Wi-Fi services as early as this spring, a sign of the widening reach of the tech billionaire. United will begin testing Starlink in February, and its first commercial flight with the service will launch this spring on the airline’s

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — At 5 p.m. PT on January 5, 2024, Boeing seemed like a company on the upswing. It didn’t last. Minutes later, a near-tragedy set off a full year of problems. As Alaska Airlines flight 1282 climbed to 16,000 feet in its departure from Portland, Oregon, a door