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CNN By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — California authorities have asked General Motors to “immediately” take some of its Cruse robotaxis off the road after autonomous vehicles were involved in two collisions – including one with an active fire truck – last week in San Francisco. California’s Department of Motor Vehicles confirmed to CNN that

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Modelo Especial is now officially America’s best-selling beer, dethroning Bud Light, whose popularity faded following the Dylan Mulvaney controversy. Sales of Modelo at grocery and beer stores have surpassed Bud Light’s over the course of 2023, according to newly released NIQ data, the first time Modelo has

By Kylie Atwood and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo will visit China next week at a critical time for the world’s second-largest economy — and for the Biden administration’s relationship with the country and its leaders. China’s economy is in trouble, and some economists and market analysts fear the contagion

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — From hot flashes and heart palpitations to chronic insomnia and brain fog, menopausal symptoms may affect roughly 25% of the US working population at any given time — and now a growing number of employers are stepping up to offer more support. The 39-million-plus working women in

By Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Fried chicken fans in China are about to get another option. The new operator of Popeyes in the country shrugged off an economic slowdown to announce a major expansion on Monday, with plans to open 1,700 stores nationwide over the next decade. At least 10 of the

CNN, KCCI, TEAMSTER.ORG, UPS By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Rank-and-file members of the Teamsters union have overwhelmingly ratified a five-year deal with UPS, putting an end to the threat of a crippling strike. The union said 86% of members had voted for the five-year contract, which will now be in effect retroactive

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Rank-and-file members of the Teamsters union have overwhelmingly ratified a five-year deal with UPS, putting an end to the threat of a crippling strike. The union said 86% of members had voted for the five-year contract, which will now be in effect retroactive to August 1. It

By Olesya Dmitracova, CNN London (CNN) — Microsoft has made a major concession to UK authorities in a bid to remove the last remaining regulatory obstacle to its huge takeover of Activision Blizzard. The companies have submitted a new proposal to the UK antitrust watchdog — the only regulator worldwide standing in the way of

By Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has fined Mintz Group, an American corporate due diligence firm, about $1.5 million for allegedly conducting unapproved statistical work in the country, as it continues with a nationwide crackdown on consulting firms in the name of national security. The fine came to light months after authorities

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — S&P Global Ratings downgraded five regional US banks by one notch and signaled a negative outlook for several others on Monday. The ratings agency said in a research note that the current “tough” lending environment caused it to downgrade the five banks, which include KeyCorp, Comerica Inc.,

By David Goldman, CNN New York (CNN) — A hotly anticipated IPO for a company that designs chips for 99% of the world’s smartphones is just around the corner, after it filed paperwork Monday to go public. Arm is a British tech company that architects power-sipping microchips for phones and tablets and licenses them to

Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — Tropical Storm Hilary slammed into the Western US this weekend, becoming the first tropical storm to cross California is a quarter century and Nevada’s first tropical storm. Multiple areas of Southern California broke rain records, with Downtown Los Angeles experiencing the rainiest summer day on record. Roads across

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Shares of Zoom jumped in after-hours trading Monday after the company said it expects to rake in stronger-than-expected earnings in the rest of this fiscal year. The company, which provides video and audio chat services, raised its outlook for profitability for the 2024 fiscal year in its second quarter

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Teva Pharmaceuticals agreed to pay more than $200 million in fines and divest a key generic drug treating cholesterol to settle price-fixing charges from the US Department of Justice, the agency announced Monday. The settlement is the largest penalty paid “for a domestic antitrust cartel,” the DOJ

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — California authorities have asked General Motors to “immediately” take some of its Cruse robotaxis off the road after autonomous vehicles were involved in two collisions – including one with an active fire truck – last week in San Francisco. California’s Department of Motor Vehicles confirmed to CNN that it

By Alicia Wallace, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — When employers deliver a job offer, it had better come with some teeth: Americans’ wage expectations have hit record highs, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey released Monday. Job seekers’ average reservation wage — the lowest pay they’d be willing to take for a

By Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Three weeks before wildfires ravaged Maui, killing more than 100 people and displacing thousands, Hawaii’s governor, Josh Green, had warned of a different emergency: an acute housing crisis. Now Maui starts down the long process of rebuilding the more than 2,000 homes and businesses lost. Much of

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blasted Facebook for “putting corporate profits ahead of people’s safety” as the social media platform continues to block news content while wildfires rage in Canada’s Northwest Territories and British Columbia. “It is so inconceivable that a company like Facebook is choosing to put corporate

By Matt Egan New York (CNN) — Goldman Sachs is warning clients that Washington is on a collision course with its first government shutdown in five years. “The ingredients for a shutdown — a thin House majority, a dispute on spending levels and potential complications from various political issues — are present,” Goldman Sachs economists

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — The reign of “Barbie” is over. At least at the box office, anyway. For the first time since its July 21 release, the Greta Gerwig-directed film wasn’t the country’s top-grossing film for the weekend. Instead, DC’s superhero film “Blue Beetle” took its place and grossed an estimated