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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Bob Moore, the founder of Bob’s Red Mill whole-grains company, has died. Shoppers will likely recognize his face for adorning the brand’s packaging for decades, with the company calling him “one of the most recognized figures in the natural foods industry” with a “larger-than-life personality,” in a

By Juliana Liu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A year after making its advertising debut at the Super Bowl, Chinese-backed online shopping platform Temu is redoubling efforts in its most important market with a second ad on America’s biggest stage and $15 million in coupons and other giveaways. The Boston-based firm — owned by PDD

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — Wall Street is still getting over the trauma of last year’s regional banking crisis. Somehow, the same issue plaguing last year’s failed banks is back in focus at the latest bank in crisis: massive loads of uninsured deposits. Shares of New York Community Bancorp have dropped about

By Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — Joe Biden doesn’t want corporate greed to eat into your Super Bowl snack spread. In a video posted Sunday to X, formerly known as Twitter, the president called on companies to put a stop to “shrinkflation.” “When buying snacks for the game, you might have noticed one

By Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — Tech entrepreneur Dan O’Dowd, a fierce critic of Tesla, isn’t pumping the brakes on his campaign against the automaker’s self-driving software. O’Dowd’s “The Dawn Project,” which says it wants to make software systems safer for humanity, is airing two ads during the Super Bowl calling on consumers

By Anna Bahney, CNN Washington (CNN) — What will you do with your Sundays now that the NFL season is about over? Maybe you’ll be hitting the open house circuit because, according to some real estate agents, Super Bowl weekend is the unofficial kick-off of peak home buying and selling season. Even though it hardly feels like

By Parija Kavilanz, CNN New York (CNN) — Consumers bought fewer toys in all of 2023, including during the key Christmas toy-buying period, showing that households continue to pare back on discretionary products. The year-end gift-buying season typically accounts for a big chunk of annual toy sales. It’s why retailers entice shoppers with discounts and

By Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — Amazon has landed the rights to exclusively stream one National Football League playoff game next season on its Prime Video platform, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. The deal comes less than a month after NBCUniversal’s Peacock became the first-ever platform to exclusively livestream an

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Twenty-one years ago, the National Football League would not allow Super Bowl ads from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority because it didn’t want even a whiff of gambling associated with the sport. On Sunday, the NFL will hold its first Super Bowl in Las Vegas,

By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — When Super Bowl Sunday rolls around each year — whether it’s in Miami, New Orleans, Los Angeles or Minneapolis — Las Vegas still draws the crowds. Football fans make a long weekend out of the event, they see some shows, eat some food, place some bets, lose some bets,

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — If you scored a Valentine’s Day reservation at a swanky Michelin-starred restaurant this year, you might wonder why an elite restaurant rating guide has the same name as a company that makes tires. All-weather radials and fine dining have little in common, after all. But, to chefs

CNN By David Goldman and Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — A jury has awarded climate scientist Michael Mann more than $1 million in a defamation lawsuit he brought against a former scholar and a media personality who lampooned Mann’s work. The legal battle has been ongoing for more than a decade. Mann initially filed a

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s prolonged war with Hamas is going to become a significant economic and political burden for the country over the long haul, Moody’s said Friday. So the agency downgraded Israel’s credit rating. Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Israel’s debt rating from A1 to A2 on Friday, underscoring the economic damage

By Nicole Goodkind and Krystal Hur, CNN New York (CNN) — The S&P 500 closed above the 5,000 level on Friday for the first time as bullish sentiment spreads across Wall Street and investors cheered fresh data showing progress on inflation. The landmark moment comes during a period of strong economic growth, the artificial intelligence revolution,

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN New York (CNN) — Hillary Clinton, Sheryl Sandberg and a coalition of scholars, government officials and legal experts discussed Friday how to prevent sexual violence as a weapon of war. “We have seen an epidemic, an alarming epidemic of gender-based violence as a weapon of war,” Clinton said during her opening

By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Noah Shachtman, the hard-charging editor with a knack for scrutinizing the rich and powerful, announced Friday that he is resigning from his post as editor-in-chief of Rolling Stone, following discussions with the iconic music and culture magazine’s top boss about the publication’s direction. Shachtman, who will formally step down on March 1, said in a statement that he

By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Colin Jost will be live from Washington, DC — not New York — on the final Saturday night of April. The “Saturday Night Live” comedian, featured in the “Weekend Update” segments, was selected by the White House Correspondents’ Association as the entertainer for the press organization’s 2024 dinner, set

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — No one’s trip to the Super Bowl is getting more attention than Taylor Swift. Her plan to make it from a Saturday night concert in Tokyo to Vegas for Sunday’s big game depends on a private jet. But she’s not the only one who isn’t flying commercial.

By David Goldman and Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — A jury has awarded climate scientist Michael Mann more than $1 million in a defamation lawsuit he brought against a former scholar and a media personality who lampooned Mann’s work. The legal battle has been ongoing for more than a decade. Mann initially filed a lawsuit