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Shein and Temu icons are seen displayed on a phone screen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on August 27, 2024. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Federal safety regulators are calling for an investigation into popular Chinese e-commerce websites Shein and Temu over concerns shoppers can easily purchase baby and […]

A Jaguar I-Pace autonomous vehicle from Waymo is seen pulling over to collect a passenger, Aug. 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. — Alex Stone/ABC News (LOS ANGELES) — Waymo, the self-driving car division of Alphabet, first began offering its autonomous rideshare service on the streets of San Francisco earlier this year. Now the company is […]

Fisher-Price is recalling over 366,000 dumbbell toys that were sold as part of the brand’s Baby Biceps Gift Set. — United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (NEW YORK) — Toy giant Fisher-Price is recalling hundreds of thousands of dumbbell toys due to a potential choking hazard. The dumbbell toys were included in the Fisher-Price Baby […]

David Sacks/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — This summer brought lots of buzz around “tourist taxes” and other fees that can get tacked on to normal travel expenses. Now, another fee that may be familiar to avid cruisers is increasing on one major cruise line. The so-called “Crew Appreciation” fee is a daily amount that’s automatically […]

Image Source/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — United Airlines flight attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants, moved closer to a strike Wednesday after the union announced that 99.99% of service members voted in favor of strike authorization. The vote included 90% of the United Airlines flight attendant staff. Among the strike requests, flight attendants […]

Grace Cary/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new bill that would allow some undocumented immigrants to receive loans to buy homes is sparking debate as it passes through the California Legislature. Assembly Bill 1840 would make it clear that a person who applies for a loan under the California Dream for All Program cannot be […]

Steve Heap/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 9,500 cases of 100% apple juice that were sold at Walmart have been recalled due to high levels of arsenic. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration upgraded the level of the apple juice recall, originally issued on Aug. 15, from unclassified to class 2, which indicates “a […]

Grace Cary/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Rising inflation has driven mortgage rates up, making it difficult for many Americans to find an affordable home. As a result, many potential buyers find themselves waiting for an interest rate cut to bring mortgage prices down. For more than a year, LaToya Trotter has worked closely with trusted […]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Borrowers eager for the Federal Reserve to abandon high interest rates could not have scripted a better four-word declaration than the one on Friday from Fed Chair Jerome Powell: “The time has come.” Powell indicated that the Fed would soon bring interest rates down from a 23-year high. The shift […]

The Rimac Nevera electric hypercar holds more than 20 performance records. — Rimac Group (NEW YORK) — Mate Rimac has a tall order: trying to convince drivers that electric supercars are superior to combustion vehicles. Rimac, the 36-year-old engineering savant from Croatia who started his namesake company 15 years ago, recently pulled the sheet of […]