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Jorge Villalba/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Target reported that its employees faced threats over its new Pride collections celebrating the LGBTQ+ community and responded by pulling some of the merchandise that had caused the most “significant confrontational behavior” to protect the safety and well-being of its employees, according to a statement from the company. Extremism […]

Greg Bajor/Getty Images (LONDON) — An airline is asking passengers to weigh in before flights in a survey that will take place for nearly five weeks and involve more than 10,000 passengers. Air New Zealand will be asking over 10,000 of its customers traveling internationally on their flights between May 29 and July 2 to […]

Carol Yepes/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Hundreds of business leaders and public figures sounded a sobering alarm on Tuesday over what they described as the threat of mass extinction posed by artificial intelligence. Among the 350 signatories of the public statement are Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, the company behind the popular conversation […]

WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Images (BRYAN, Texas) — Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes reported to a Texas prison on Tuesday to begin a more than 11-year sentence for defrauding investors with false claims about her company’s blood-testing technology. Holmes arrived at the prison in Bryan, Texas, at about 12:30 p.m. central time wearing a tan cardigan and jeans. […]

WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes will report to prison on Tuesday to begin a more than 11-year sentence for defrauding investors with false claims about her company’s blood-testing technology. Holmes, who was sentenced last fall, has failed in multiple requests to delay her incarceration as she awaits a ruling on […]

discan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Memorial Day is here and that means there are plenty of deals and sales to shop across multiple retailers. ABC News’ Becky Worley appeared on Good Morning America Monday to discuss the best deals consumers can find for the holiday: Copyright © 2023, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — German automaker Mercedes-Benz has seen its share of the U.S. luxury market slip as customers traded in their V8 sedans and sport utility vehicles for Teslas. Now, the company is following in Tesla’s footsteps by building out its own charging network, accelerating its electrified fleet and adding Level […]

JazzIRT/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With Memorial Day weekend travel underway, U.S. airports recorded the highest number of passengers on Thursday since before the COVID-19 pandemic began. The Transportation Security Administration said it screened 2,658,057 people at checkpoints across the country on Thursday, the highest daily number since 2019. Even more passengers could be screened […]

Robert Alexander/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Truck drivers delivering Bud Light have received the middle finger from passersby, distributors have faced intentional collisions from shopping carts as they drop off beer and vendors have endured homophobic jokes calling them “gay beer salesmen,” according to top officials at several beer distribution companies. While Anheuser-Busch InBev weathers […]

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Ahead of the slate of blockbuster films hitting theaters this summer, MoviePass is back with a new plan that could help moviegoers save money at the box office. “We’re really excited to be able to let everybody in,” MoviePass CEO Stacy Spikes told Good Morning America. The […]