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ABC News (NEW YORK) — Emoji, the silly little pictorials that fill digital communication, are a fun way to deliver a message for many people. But for those who want to be enshrined in the cultural annals of face-palm, red heart and tears of joy by creating the next iconic emoji, this is serious business. […]

David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Elon Musk has stayed silent on the results of a poll completed more than a day ago in which Twitter users voted for him to resign as the head of the platform. He pledged to abide by the outcome of the poll when he posted it. […]

CARINA JOHANSEN/NTB/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After polling Twitter users, Elon Musk on Tuesday night said he will resign as head of the social media platform. “I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers […]

Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Recession fears are growing, even as households strained by inflation begin to find some relief. The dynamic captures the confusing state of the U.S. economy, as the Federal Reserve aggressively fights inflation with interest rate hikes that aim to slash prices by slowing demand and risking a recession. In […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Sam Bankman-Fried has landed in the U.S. to face federal charges after agreeing to extradition in a Bahamian court on Wednesday. The disgraced former CEO was put on a U.S. government plane for a flight to New York. He landed in Westchester County Airport. “I hereby consent in writing to […]

Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Debbie Wilkerson, after years of fighting bad credit, is on her way to saving for a down payment on her first home. She says a guaranteed income pilot program has helped her single-income household get some stability, whereas living check-to-check had left her family without a pathway to owning […]

Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Elon Musk vowed to resign as the head of Twitter but he will remain a dominant force at the company, some management experts told ABC News. The billionaire entrepreneur, who owns Twitter, said on Tuesday that he will step down as soon as the company identifies a […]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Workers at Amazon and Starbucks astonished allies and adversaries this year, delivering landmark labor victories and helping inspire a resurgence of unionization nationwide. But labor headway at the two companies has stagnated in recent months, jeopardizing the ultimate success of the campaigns and casting the continued growth of the […]

Consumer Product Safety Commission (NEW YORK) — Target is telling customers to stop using some weighted children’s blankets that were sold in its stores and online after four incidents where children became entrapped, two of which resulted in deaths, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Thursday. A 4-year-old girl and a 6-year-old girl reportedly […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — As families across the country celebrate this holiday season, some parents are choosing to create new traditions around gift-giving, including forgoing gifts. For Gabrielle and Carlos Flores, that means not giving any toys to their three young children for Christmas. “It’s more about the giving aspect of everything and not […]