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By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — A member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors announced Friday that she is resigning several months before the end of her term, handing President Donald Trump an early opportunity to fill a key vacancy. Fed Governor Adriana Kugler is stepping down from her role, effective August 8.

By Reuters (CNN) — A Florida jury on Friday found Tesla liable in the 2019 fatal crash of an Autopilot-equipped Model S, and ordered Elon Musk’s automaker to pay $329 million to the family of a deceased woman and an injured survivor. Jurors in Miami federal court ordered Tesla to pay $129 million in compensatory

By Liam Reilly, Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced on Friday that it will wind down its operations due to the successful Republican effort to defund local PBS and NPR stations across the country. The announcement came just over a week after President Donald Trump enacted a rescissions bill clawing

CNN By Liam Reilly, Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced on Friday that it will wind down its operations due to the successful Republican effort to defund local PBS and NPR stations across the country. The announcement came just over a week after President Donald Trump enacted a rescissions bill

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has said that tariffs won’t lead to higher prices. But the United States economy seems to disagree: Inflation, which has remained fairly tame, is slowly creeping up because of tariffs. Trump’s latest round of higher taxes on imports, which goes into effect next week, will immediately

By John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — Stocks across the globe closed lower Friday after President Donald Trump unveiled his plan for levying tariffs on trading partners, threatening to upend decades of international cooperation. The Dow tumbled 542 points, or 1.23%. The broader S&P 500 fell 1.6% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slipped 2.24%.

By Rachel Wilson, Anna Cooban, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has once again announced new tariffs for just about every country in the world, further upending the landscape of global trade. Starting August 7, the United States will impose a 10% “universal” levy on imported goods from countries with which it has a trade

CNN, POOL, SEE PREFONTS By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump just set new tariffs for every country around the world, solidifying his extreme break with America’s long-standing trade policy. Tariffs on the vast majority of goods America imports are set to rise – even from the handful of countries that negotiated individual

By Lisa Eadicicco, CNN (CNN) — Apple reported strong iPhone sales and rebound in revenue from China, giving a much-needed boost to two parts of the company’s business that had struggled over the past year. That better-than-expected performance reassured Wall Street investors that key parts of its business are holding steady as Apple struggles to

By Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — In the end, President Donald Trump got exactly what he wanted. The 120 days since Trump’s Rose Garden “Liberation Day” announcement rocked financial markets weren’t exactly pretty. From the Washington to Wall Street and across foreign capitals far and wide, seemingly every day featured a disorienting burst of TACOs

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — President Donald Trump met at the White House last week with a powerful business leader he’s repeatedly clashed with in the past: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. During the Oval Office meeting, Trump and Dimon discussed the economy, trade, financial regulation and the Federal Reserve, a person

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced on Thursday he’s extending the existing tariffs with Mexico, America’s largest trading partner, and he will pause higher tariffs that were set to go into effect Friday. That means the status quo will continue, in which goods from Mexico are taxed at 25%, unless they

By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — US consumers continued to spend in June despite tariff-related price hikes. Consumer spending rose 0.3% from May, when spending was flat, according to Commerce Department data released Thursday. The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index — the inflation gauge the Federal Reserve uses for its 2% target rate — rose

By John Liu, CNN (CNN) — Just a few years ago, Samsung Electronics stood as a leading force in the global semiconductor race, dominating one chip sector and eyeing Taiwan’s TSMC in the battle for supremacy in another. But recent stumbles – including its failure to capitalize early on the artificial intelligence boom – has

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced a new trade deal with South Korea, which calls for 15% tariffs on goods from there. “The Deal is that South Korea will give to the United States $350 Billion Dollars for Investments owned and controlled by the United States, and selected by myself, as

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — If Meta investors had concerns about the company’s huge spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure and talent — and its ambitious “superintelligence” goal — they’re likely to be assuaged by its blockbuster earnings report on Wednesday. The results, as one analyst put it, indicates that “AI is becoming

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday kept interest rates unchanged for the fifth consecutive meeting as it remains under intense pressure from President Donald Trump and his allies to lower borrowing costs. The central bank left its benchmark lending rate at a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, where it

By Phil Mattingly, Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is ratcheting up the pressure on India, calling into question the prospects of a deal with a key US trading partner just days before his tariff deadline. Trump, in a pair of social media posts Wednesday, sharply attacked India’s trade barriers and directly targeted

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — The US economy expanded sharply in the second quarter as businesses dialed back on imports after stocking up earlier in the year to get ahead of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Gross domestic product, which captures all the goods and services produced in the economy, registered an annualized rate

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Starbucks is shutting down its pick-up only stores just six years after introducing the concept, because they no longer mesh with the struggling coffee chain’s overall strategy. “We found this format to be overly transactional and lacking the warmth and human connection that defines our brand,” Starbucks

By Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said he didn’t want to make things personal as he stood next to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on a tour of the Fed’s $2.5 billion renovation last week. That brief respite in Trump’s relentless rhetorical war on his favorite economic foil will almost certainly expire

CNN, POOL By Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said he didn’t want to make things personal as he stood next to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on a tour of the Fed’s $2.5 billion renovation last week. That brief respite in Trump’s relentless rhetorical war on his favorite economic foil will almost

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — International House of Pancakes, a.k.a. IHOP, is leaning into the first word of its name and jumping on a global viral trend that is as lavish as it is expensive. The chain is capitalizing on the “Dubai Chocolate” trend, which has tantalized TikTok users over the past

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — Chinese and American trade negotiators concluded their two-day meeting in Stockholm without a resolution to avert tariffs from skyrocketing back to ultra-high levels that formed an effective blockade on trade between the world’s two largest economies. But President Donald Trump’s trade advisers and their Chinese counterparts sounded a hopeful

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washignton (CNN) — The Trump administration’s trade agreements with a handful of countries are helping Americans feel somewhat more confident about the economy’s health and its future. Consumer confidence climbed 2 points this month to a reading of 97.2, the Conference Board said Tuesday, showing people’s attitudes about the economy have

By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — Two of the largest US railroads, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, announced on Tuesday a plan to combine in a $72 billion deal that would create America’s first transcontinental freight railroad. The stock and cash deal would be the largest ever in a sector that has already massively consolidated

By Nayeli Jaramillo-Plata, CNN (CNN) — In Alaska’s North Slope region — the northernmost county in the US, roughly the same size as the United Kingdom — one small public radio station, KBRW, keeps eight Iñupiat villages connected and serves about 10,000 people. Now, it may not survive. Last Thursday, President Trump signed into law

By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Goodwill, Easterseals and other nonprofit organizations say thousands of low-income seniors could soon be unemployed because funding hasn’t come through for a decades-old federal job training and placement program. The Department of Labor has yet to release more than $300 million in funds for national grantees of the Senior

By John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — US stocks were mixed Monday and the S&P 500 was on the verge of snapping a five-day win streak as investors digested the announcement of a trade deal between Washington and Brussels. Stocks fluctuated between gains and losses Monday afternoon after President Donald Trump and President of

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Wright’s Market has been a fixture of Opelika, Alabama, a town of around 30,000 near Auburn University, since the 1970s. The supermarket relies on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for roughly one-third of sales. SNAP is a “big piece of what we do,” said owner Jimmy