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By Eva Rothenberg, CNN (CNN) — Since at least 2019, Meta has knowingly refused to shut down the majority of accounts belonging to children under the age of 13 while collecting their personal information without their parents’ consent, a newly unsealed court document from an ongoing federal lawsuit against the social media giant alleges. Attorneys

By Christopher Hickey, CNN Not even two years of soaring prices and mounting interest rates have stopped Americans from opening their wallets and tapping their credit cards. The consumer’s willingness to keep paying high prices has kept the US economy relatively strong, but that attitude could soon be shifting. Some experts think the combination of

By Clare Duffy and Rachel Ramirez, CNN New York (CNN) — Tomato growers in central India have been increasingly worried about the volatility that extreme weather events have brought to the region. For much of the area, the last decade has been punctuated by severe droughts that led to significant crop loss, impacting the livelihoods

By Eva Rothenberg, CNN (CNN) — Honda is recalling more than 300,000 vehicles over faulty seat belts. In a notice filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Tuesday, the automaker said some front seat belts in 2023-2024 Accords and HR-Vs have missing pretensioner rivets. A pretensioner is the seat belt component that

By Eva Rothenberg, CNN (CNN) — Whether they jostled through brick-and-mortar stores or toggled between tabs and virtual carts, holiday shoppers were eager to participate in Black Friday this year. Both in-store and online retail sales increased year-over-year unadjusted for inflation, according to Mastercard’s SpendingPulse insights, which noted that apparel, jewelry and restaurant categories saw considerable

By Samantha Delouya, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — If your idea of train travel – fast, easy, ubiquitous, even glamorous – is from movies like “Before Sunrise” or “Bullet Train” set in Europe or Asia, you’ll be surprised to learn that the US was once the world’s superpower in passenger trains. With a busy transcontinental

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — When Sears, Toys “R” Us and Circuit City filed for bankruptcy in recent years, it was an opportunity for other retailers to move into their old storefronts. Now, retailers are pouncing on empty Bed Bath & Beyond stores. “Some of our best stores were created from carved-up

By Parija Kavilanz, CNN New York (CNN) — Let the shopping games begin. Deal-hunters headed to their favorite stores in person and online on the day after Thanksgiving to bag what they hope are some of the best early bargains of the year-end holiday period. So are the start-of-the-season deals enticing enough for shoppers or

By Olesya Dmitracova, CNN London (CNN) — Oil and gas producers must confront a “pivotal” choice: continue to accelerate the climate crisis or become part of the solution, the International Energy Agency said in a report Thursday. The industry currently accounts for only 1% of global investment in clean energy, and continues to pump out

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — Electric cars are supposed to be the future, but they still have issues that are keeping away many car buyers. The range is too short. The batteries are too heavy and expensive. They take too long to charge. But a number of companies say they have the technology to

By Diksha Madhok and Juliana Liu, CNN New Delhi/Hong Kong (CNN) — A major wealth management company in China has told investors it can’t pay all its bills, reigniting fears that the country’s long-running real estate slump may be spilling over into the $3 trillion shadow banking sector. Zhongzhi Enterprise Group (ZEG) wrote to investors

By Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Jack Ma has put off plans to sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Alibaba shares after the Chinese tech giant’s stock plummeted last week. Two regulatory filings from last Thursday revealed that Ma had been looking to offload 10 million shares, worth nearly $871 million.

By Rhea Mogul, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A Kashmir journalist who was arrested under India’s sedition and anti-terror laws has returned home Thursday after being released on bail following nearly two years behind bars. Fahad Shah, founding editor of The Kashmir Walla, an independent news outlet in Indian-administered Kashmir, was accused of publishing “anti-national content”

By Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — The leadership crisis that engulfed OpenAI for nearly a week ended almost as abruptly as it began: With a terse, cryptic announcement by the company that would have enormous ramifications for its future. In some ways, the outcome was a return to the status quo: Sam Altman would be

By Jennifer Korn, CNN (CNN) — Spotify’s new royalty system means so-called functional noises like the sound of rainfall will earn significantly less than traditional music files. In an attempt to crack down on “bad actors” using the genre to fraudulently generate revenue, Spotify announced in a blog post Tuesday it would be increasing the

By Oliver Darcy and Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — Some of the world’s most recognizable brands have opted to continue their advertising partnerships with X despite the surge in hate speech on the platform and owner Elon Musk’s continued peddling of misinformation and right-wing conspiracy theories, including an endorsement last week of an antisemitic post.