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By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — Just two days after Election Day, Maggie Mosher, a retired history teacher based in San Jose, California, began setting up raised beds to build a winter garden in her backyard. Never before had Mosher contemplated growing food in the winter as well as the peak growing months

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Meta on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to how it moderates content that will roll out in the coming months, including doing away with professional fact checking. But the company also quietly updated its hateful conduct policy, adding new types of content users can post on the platform,

By Liam Reilly, CNN New York (CNN) — The Washington Post on Tuesday laid off roughly 100 employees across its business division, the latest indication of the newspaper’s financial woes after subscribers and staffers revolted over owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris. The cuts amounted to roughly 4%

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — It’s officially the beginning of Girl Scout cookie season, but it’s the end for two flavors. The Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) announced that the “S’mores” and “Toast-Yay!” cookies will be discontinued after this year, joining the “Raspberry Rally” flavor in retirement. GSUSA is likely hoping

CNN 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

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched an investigation into crashes It said occurred while Tesla vehicles were operating with a parking feature that allows owners to summon a car from a parking space without anyone being in the vehicle. The preliminary investigation, into an estimated

By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — The “Great Stay” deepened in November as the number of people who quit their jobs that month dropped to under 3.1 million, a level not seen since the height of the pandemic. The latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey report, which was released Tuesday, also showed that hiring

CNN By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — In a number of sweeping changes that will significantly alter the way that posts, videos and other content are moderated online, Meta will adjust its content review policies on Facebook and Instagram, getting rid of fact checkers and replacing them with user-generated “community notes,” similar to

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — After successfully cornering the spirits section, celebrities now are aiming for the non-alcoholic aisle, with Tom Holland among the first A-listers making perhaps the biggest deal yet. Target announced Tuesday that Bero, Holland’s non-alcoholic beer brand, is coming to roughly 1,400 of its nearly 2,000 US stores

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — In a number of sweeping changes that will significantly alter the way that posts, videos and other content are moderated online, Meta will adjust its content review policies on Facebook and Instagram, getting rid of fact checkers and replacing them with user-generated “community notes,” similar to Elon

By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — A Los Angeles tech entrepreneur found himself trapped in a self-driving taxi last month on his way to the airport, with the car repeatedly circling around a parking lot. Mike Johns posted a video on LinkedIn in which he was headed to Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. Johns

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Negotiations aimed at heading off a new strike at the ports up and down America’s East and Gulf Coasts are set to resume Tuesday. The talks are between the United States Maritime Alliance, the group representing ship lines and port and terminal operators which uses the acronym

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