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Greg Bajor/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — If you travel often, you’ve probably heard the rule of thumb, to book during the opposite season — sort of like Christmas in July or buying a winter coat at a deep discount during summer. Experts say the logic is the same for booking holiday flights or a winter […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — For couples ready to take that next step together, there’s nothing like planning a wedding — then going into sticker shock after discovering just how much it’s going to cost. The average cost of a wedding in 2022 was about $30,000, according to wedding planning site The Knot. And that […]

Javier Ghersi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Alarm over a possible recession has blared for well over a year, but in recent months a cooldown of inflation alongside resilient job gains has quieted the din. Growing optimism among some forecasters that the economy could avoid a recession altogether, however, faces a pair of tests this week. […]

Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday will decide whether to revive an aggressive series of interest rate hikes and may indicate a willingness to soon end its full-throttle inflation fight. Last month, the central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged, ending a string of 10 consecutive rate increases that stretched […]

400tmax/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a union representing about 330,000 UPS employees in the U.S., have reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement. Contract negotiations between UPS and the Teamsters restarted on Tuesday after breaking down earlier this month. The two sides faced a July 31 deadline, at which point […]

Trader Joe’s (NEW YORK) — Trader Joe’s shoppers should check their pantries for two kinds of the company’s cookie products that were recently recalled because they “may contain rocks.” The retailer announced in a press release on July 21 that it had been notified about the possible contamination by a supplier. The two kinds of […]

Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Picnics are synonymous with summertime, and while it can be fun to curate the perfect combination of snacks and foods at home, Shake Shack is making it easier than ever with its new “Veg Out” kit, complete with the chain’s newest plant-based menu items. Shake Shack, […]

Hanna Lassen/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Greta Gerwig’s Barbie defied a sluggish pandemic recovery at movie theaters to rake in $155 million domestically over its opening weekend. The haul made it the highest-grossing debut of 2023 and the top contributor to the fourth-largest weekend at the box office in the U.S. of all time. At […]

Stella/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Books, binders, pens and pencils are just a few of the necessities students across the country will need as the upcoming school year awaits. But a lengthy list of school supplies may have families sweating the price tags associated with these essential items. Luckily, starting this week, several states that […]

Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — TikTok has added a new feature that allows users to create text-only posts with the change coming just a day after Twitter rebranded itself and less than three weeks after Facebook released Threads as competition between the social media giants continues to escalate. “At TikTok, we’re always […]