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By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — While inflation in the US has been cooling since hitting a four-decade high, the temperature outside continues to climb. It’s been one of the hottest summers on record for much of the country and the planet, which last week experienced the hottest day in recorded history. But

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Lululemon thought it had developed its next hit. But after its new leggings became the butt of endless jokes, the company will have to leave them behind. Lululemon pulled its newly-released $98 Breezethrough leggings line from its website and app after negative reviews and customer complaints about

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — As vice president, Kamala Harris was a leading player in a remarkably progressive Biden administration that fought mergers, battled Big Tech and called out corporate greed. As the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Harris finds herself in the middle of a tug-of-war as she crafts her own economic

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Remember the universal childhood experience of writing a fan letter to someone you admire? (Mickey Mouse, I hope you still have that note I gave you at Disneyland in 1999.) Well, a new Google ad says artificial intelligence can now do that for you. It’s not going

By Niamh Kennedy and Pauline Lockwood, CNN London (CNN) — Former BBC News presenter Huw Edwards has been charged with three counts of making indecent images of children, London’s Metropolitan Police said Monday. The charges related to images allegedly shared on WhatsApp, a police spokesperson said. Police charged Edwards, a former anchor of the BBC’s

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — The first time Alexis Hammond rented out her Baltimore home on Peerspace, a marketplace for renting homes and other spaces by the hour, a film crew and a celebrity arrived to shoot a Wawa commercial. “There was a Baltimore Ravens football player here, so that was very exciting,” Hammond

By Chris Isidore, Jaide Timm-Garcia and Isabel Rosales, CNN New York (CNN) — Delta Air Lines stranded an estimated half million passengers in its service meltdown last week, leaving many sleeping on floors of airports, frustrated and angry at their inability to complete their trips, unable to find their bags or get answers from the

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — Inflation looks vastly different between these two beachside metropolises. The pace of home construction has been a deciding factor for both regions. The Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater region in Florida recently saw the lowest inflation rate among 23 metropolitan areas across the country — 1.8% in the 12 months that

By Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — One of the year’s most hotly anticipated movies, “Deadpool & Wolverine,” is so far delivering on its promised hype with $96 million in domestic sales in its opening night, according to Comscore data. The summer blockbuster is on track to exceed $200 million domestically for the weekend,

CNN’s Elisabeth Buchwald, Chris Isidore, Bryan Mena and Allison Morrow (CNN) — President Joe Biden arrived at the White House in 2021 at a time of heightened chaos and uncertainty across a country reeling from the pandemic. Biden used his inauguration address to promote unity, in hopes of delivering a nation that’s “stronger, more prosperous,

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Apple and the union representing retail workers at its store in Towson, Maryland, agreed to a tentative labor deal late Friday in the first US labor agreement not only for an Apple store but for any US workers of the tech giant. Workers at the Apple store

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — Over the past couple of years, the Federal Reserve aggressively raised its key interest rate to a 23-year high to beat down inflation. Now that inflation has slowed substantially and is expected to cool further, the central bank is expected to embark on a rate-cutting campaign over the next

By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — It’s a situation familiar to many women: They go to the hair salon for a cut and spend a small fortune, while their male partners, brothers, uncles, and guy friends spend considerably less in the barbershop, or in the same salon. But are women really paying more for the

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Governments around the world have tried to kill the tobacco industry. Zyn, the brand of flavored oral nicotine pouches that comes in small, round containers resembling breath mints, is its latest strategy. While it’s ultimately owned by tobacco giant Philip Morris International, Zyn is a tobacco-free product.