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RiverNorthPhotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — NPR will stop sharing content on Twitter, the company announced Wednesday — a rebuke of certain labels the social media platform attached to the news outlet. The international media non-profit said the categorization — first as “US state-affiliated media” and later “government-funded media” — prompted the outlet to stop posting “fresh […]

Courtesy of Lianne Mandelbaum (NEW YORK) — A New Jersey mom is speaking out after she claims United Airlines staff refused to accommodate her son’s “life-threatening” peanut allergy during a recent flight. Lianne Mandelbaum said she, her husband and their son Josh were traveling home on March 13 from Texas, where they had been visiting […]

Javier Ghersi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Consumer prices rose 5% last month compared to a year ago, extending a months-long slowdown of price increases as the Federal Reserve aims to bring inflation down to normal levels without pushing the U.S. into a recession, government data on Wednesday showed. The fresh data showed the lowest year-over-year […]

Javier Ghersi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Investors and consumers on Wednesday will closely watch the release of fresh inflation data, which will show whether price increases continued a months-long slowdown in March. The data release arrives less than a month after the Federal Reserve imposed the latest in a string of borrowing cost increases, despite […]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A staple in many American kitchens could soon be coming to an end. Tupperware, which has been in American homes for more than 75 years, is now saying it could soon go out of business. The news sent stock prices plummeting nearly 50% on Monday. Analysts say the brand […]

DenisTangneyJr/Getty Images (NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.) — Thousands of academic workers at Rutgers University, including professors and graduate student workers, launched a strike on Monday, picketing outside of campus buildings and urging colleagues to forego teaching classes. The strike marks the first in the university’s nearly 257-year history, according to a group of unions representing the […]

Marko Geber/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As young professionals navigate the workforce with an emphasis on valuing self-care and work-life balance, behavioral trends like “quiet quitting” and pushes for a four-day workweek have emerged. Now, the latest career trend to take hold of the internet is “Bare Minimum Mondays.” “I think what I’m seeing at […]

EF Volart via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Electric bikes have made headlines for the dramatic leap in sales of the devices during the pandemic. However, they’ve also drawn notoriety for occasionally sparking deadly fires. The U.S. e-bike market grew 269% between 2019 and 2022, with $885.5 million in sales last year, according to market […]

AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images (NEW YORK) — The place where dreams come true is making magic for Disney theme park fans who have asked about Walt Disney World Annual Passes. “New sales of the Disney Incredi-Pass, Disney Sorcerer Pass and Disney Pirate Pass will resume and can be purchased online beginning on April 20,” Disney Parks announced […]

Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Johnson & Johnson announced Tuesday that the company has agreed to pay $8.9 billion over 25 years to settle “all current and future” claims that the company’s baby powder and other cosmetic talc products allegedly caused cancer. The company announced in the securities filing that its subsidiary […]