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By Erika Tulfo, CNN (CNN) — Prime members can now add “fuel discounts” to their ever-growing list of benefits. The newest perk from e-commerce giant Amazon will allow members to save 10 cents per gallon at the gas pump (up to an average of nearly $70 a year) at around 7,000 participating BP, Amoco, and

By Graham Hurley, CNN (CNN) — The winning ticket for Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot was sold in Buford, Georgia, the first time the top prize has been won in the state since 2016. The ticket matching all six numbers, worth $478.2 million, was sold at Quick Mart on Buford Dam Road, according to a news release from Powerball. The winner can

By John Towfighi, CNN Baltimore (CNN) — A new lawsuit alleges Vince McMahon knowingly enabled the sexual exploitation of children by a WWE employee in the 1980s. The suit, filed on behalf of five former WWE “Ring Boys,” alleges McMahon, his wife Linda McMahon, the WWE, and TKO Group Holdings, the league’s parent company, knowingly

By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — Problems at Boeing go back years, if not decades. And they just got a lot harder to fix. In addition to the spate of safety incidents that has undermined the company’s public image, raised worries about quality, sparked numerous investigations and led to a

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — US mortgage rates rose again this week, the fourth-straight weekly increase. That rise in borrowing costs has undone some of the relief Americans felt this summer when mortgage rates fell in anticipation of a rate cut from the Federal Reserve as inflation improved. The average rate on a

By Auzinea Bacon, CNN New York (CNN) — Keurig Dr Pepper will expand its energy drink business by acquiring the brand Ghost for more than $1 billion. The range of Ghost’s energy drink flavors, in partnership with sweet brands like Sour Patch Kids and Oreo, sets Keurig up to appeal to a younger audience, the

By Brian Stelter and Liam Reilly, CNN New York (CNN) — The Fox News Channel’s recent segment about Donald Trump’s “surprise” visit to a barbershop in the Bronx resembled a campaign ad for the former president’s reelection. Trump was seen taking questions and making small talk with Black and Hispanic barbershop customers and workers, some of whom were wearing

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — This year’s election is shaping up to be particularly ugly for the business world, with two presidential candidates who could not be further apart in their approaches to taxes and regulation. On top of that, control of Congress is also up for grabs, which could significantly hurt

Story by Associated Press (AP) — A Polish radio station has triggered controversy after dismissing its journalists and relaunching this week with AI-generated “presenters.” Weeks after letting its journalists go, OFF Radio Krakow relaunched this week, with what it said was “the first experiment in Poland in which journalists … are virtual characters created by

By Liam Reilly, CNN New York (CNN) — The leader of the Los Angeles Times’ editorial board said Wednesday she has resigned from her post in protest after the newspaper’s owner blocked a decision to endorse Kamala Harris in the presidential election. “I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am

By Brian Stelter, CNN New York (CNN) — Lawyers for CBS News are rebuffing a legal threat from Donald Trump over the network’s “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris, telling the former president his demands are based on a “faulty premise.” In a blunt letter to Trump’s legal counsel, the network on Wednesday said the

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Tesla Wednesday reported an unexpected improvement in earnings for the third quarter, lifting its recently battered shares in after-hours trading. The company reported a 6% increase in sales volume, which was fairly modest for an automaker that not long ago was reporting 50% annual growth in vehicles

By Nicole Goodkind and Lucy Bayly, CNN New York (CNN) — US stocks took a dive Wednesday as mounting concerns over big tech earnings, rising Treasury yields and political uncertainty drove down all three major indexes. Investors have been increasingly on edge about the prospect of former President Donald Trump winning the election, a possibility

By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — ChatGPT can be duped into providing detailed advice on how to commit crimes ranging from money laundering to the export of weapons to sanctioned countries, a tech startup found, raising questions over the chatbot’s safeguards against its use to aid illegal activity. Norwegian firm Strise ran two experiments asking

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered Goldman Sachs and Apple to pay $89 million, and Goldman was temporarily banned from issuing new credit cards, because of the companies’ mishandling of their Apple Card partnership. The failures left customers with unresolved charge disputes and, in some cases,