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By John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — The Treasury Department and Congress on Thursday moved to kill a so-called revenge tax that was set to raise taxes on foreign investment and had spooked Wall Street and global business leaders. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday announced a deal with G7 partners that will exclude

By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — Venice, Italy, can expect to reap a $1.1 billion reward from Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s controversial, star-studded wedding, according to Italy’s Tourism Ministry. The ministry said Friday that the event, which has been met with fierce pushback from some Venetians, could provide a boost of almost 68% of

By John Towfighi, CNN (CNN) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday said he thinks trade negotiations could be “wrapped up” by Labor Day, providing a more relaxed framework for inking deals than the previously prescribed July 9 deadline. Bessent said in an interview on Fox Business that the United States has 18 “important trading

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — The dreaded “blue screen of death” that has tormented millions of Windows users for decades is being put to rest. Microsoft is ditching the notorious feature that appears on Windows computers in the coming months, “streamlining the unexpected restart experience” with a new black-colored screen, the company

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The Danish government is planning to tackle the issue of AI-generated deepfakes by granting citizens property rights over their likeness and voice. The proposed legislation would mean that people who find that their features have been used to create a deepfake would have the right to ask the platforms

By David Goldman and John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — The US stock market on Friday hit an all-time high, its first since mid-February. It marked the culmination of a remarkable recovery on Wall Street since flirting with bear market territory in early April. The S&P 500 gained 0.5%, to close at a record

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Nike is forecasting it will have to pay $1 billion in additional costs because of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, the activewear giant announced Thursday. The tariffs “represent a new and meaningful cost headwind,” said Matthew Friend, Nike’s chief financial officer on a call with analysts, adding that

By Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — President Trump has ratcheted up his rhetorical battle over recent US airstrikes in Iran by having an attorney send legal letters to CNN and The New York Times demanding retractions of their reports. On Thursday evening a CNN spokesperson confirmed that the network responded to the letter by rejecting

CNN By Nathaniel Meyersohn. Video by Maya Blackstone, CNN New York (CNN) — Over the last few years, Starbucks pulled out 30,000 comfortable seats, installed hard wooden stools, blocked electrical outlets and turned stores into takeout counters for customers picking up orders off its mobile app. The changes backfired and customers left for local coffee

By John Liu and Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China on Friday signaled it would approve the export of rare earth minerals to the US, hours after White House officials said the two sides had reached a deal, in what would be a major breakthrough following weeks of negotiations over US access to

By James Frater and Ramishah Maruf, CNN (CNN) — Some European Union leaders discussed a rethinking of the World Trade Organization, the entity at the center of the global trading system, at the European Council meeting on Thursday night in Brussels. “If the WTO continues to be incapable of working,” German Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz

By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — It was horrifying enough for anyone when a door plug popped off an Alaska Airlines flight at more than 16,000 feet last year, causing an explosive decompression. But one mother’s nightmare was particularly acute, as she thought she lost her baby out of the gaping hole in the side

By Brian Stelter and Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — Bill Moyers, a former press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson who turned into a longtime broadcast journalist and champion of public media, has died at age 91, his family confirmed to CNN. The acclaimed journalist’s son, William Moyers, said he died of complications from a

By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Some of President Donald Trump’s steepest tariffs are on products like washing machines, and on Thursday, GE Appliances said it would spend a half a billion dollars to make even more of them in the United States. Tariffs, however, weren’t the driving factor behind the decision, the company’s CEO

By Lisa Eadicicco and Hadas Gold, CNN New York (CNN) — Trump Mobile, the wireless service provider and phone company launched by the Trump Organization, no longer promises on its website that its upcoming smartphone will be made in America. The company adjusted language on its website on or around June 22 to drop the