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By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — The Hyundai battery plant in Georgia that saw 475 workers arrested in immigration raid last week is just the latest example of President Donald Trump’s policies clashing with his goals for the world’s largest economy. The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts have had widespread impacts on the construction industry,

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Cracker Barrel announced that it’s suspending the renovations of its restaurants following a disastrous logo rollout that sent shares lower. “You’ve shared your voices in recent weeks not just on our logo, but also on our restaurants,” the chain said on X. “If your restaurant hasn’t been

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the cofounders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, are fighting with the company’s parents about the independence of the brand they created nearly 50 years ago. The pair, which no longer controls the company they created, wrote an open letter Tuesday addressed

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — President Donald Trump has promised his high tariffs will inspire an American manufacturing renaissance. Yet so far his controversial experiment has failed to inspire a jobs boom. Not only is hiring weak, but the industries most exposed to tariffs have been shedding workers – exactly the opposite

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Buying a home has become increasingly pricey in the past few years. Now, Zillow has put a staggering number to those higher costs: America’s housing market has climbed 57% since 2020, to a record $55 trillion. That means that in just five years, the US housing market’s value has

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Howard Stern pranked his fans and the media Monday about leaving his longtime SiriusXM radio show. Bravo host Andy Cohen appeared at the top of Stern’s 7 a.m. time slot, announcing that he was taking over the channel and rebranding it as “Andy 100.” Multiple media outlets,

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — If you’re sharing the Amazon Prime membership of a family member or friend outside your household, prepare to pay up. Beginning October 1, the company is eliminating “Prime Invitee,” a program that let Prime members outside of their household share their free shipping benefit. Moving forward, customers

By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — Getting an early jump on the upcoming horror film slate, “The Conjuring: Last Rites” topped the weekend domestic box office while shattering analysts’ expectations with an $83 million haul. Industry analysts expected the ninth release of “The Conjuring” universe to earn around $50 million. Its bigger-than-expected opening made “Last

COLUMBIA PICTURES, WALT DISNEY PICTURES, WARNER BROS. PICTURES, CNN By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — Getting an early jump on the upcoming horror film slate, “The Conjuring: Last Rites” topped the weekend domestic box office while shattering analysts’ expectations with an $83 million haul. Industry analysts expected the ninth release of “The Conjuring” universe to

KENS By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — Winning tickets for Saturday’s nearly $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot were sold in Missouri and Texas, the lottery said. “With final ticket sales, the Powerball jackpot came in at $1.787 billion – making it the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever won,” the Multi-State Lottery Association, which runs the Powerball

CNN, GETTY, BLOOMBERG, TESLA, CCTV, WLUK, WSYX, KCNC, CNBC, X, ELONMUSK, X/ElonMusk By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, could become the first trillionaire after the Tesla board unveiled a massive new pay package for its CEO to keep his focus on the troubled EV maker. The package would

By Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Friday dismissed pro-Trump channel Newsmax’s lawsuit against Fox News just two days after it was filed, calling it a “shotgun” complaint. Newsmax’s lawsuit is a “shotgun pleading,” US District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled, using a term for disorganized complaints that fail to meet certain pleading

CNN By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — The US job market is stalling out. Job growth slowed to a crawl in August, and the unemployment rate rose to its highest level in nearly four years, indicating the US labor market is growing stagnant. The economy added just 22,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate

By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — The Powerball lottery’s advertised jackpot is up to a massive $1.7 billion, thanks in large part to high ticket sales and the lack of a winner since late May. But there’s another reason you might not expect: high interest rates. But to explain why high interest rates are a

CNN By Hadas Gold, CNN New York (CNN) — James, a married father from upstate New York, has always been interested in AI. He works in the technology field and has used ChatGPT since its release for recommendations, “second guessing your doctor” and the like. But sometime in May, his relationship with the technology shifted.

By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Warning signs have been flashing for months that the US job market has been losing steam. That became starkly clearer in July, and the early data for August isn’t looking much better. New metrics released Thursday showed that first-time claims for unemployment benefits rose to an 11-week high; that

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Harrods, the high-end London department store, has applied to local authorities for permission to remove sculptures of disgraced former owner Mohamed Al Fayed from its interior. The renowned business, which started life as a grocery store in 1849, has submitted detailed plans to overhaul its Egyptian-themed hall and a

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — Stephen Miran, the White House economist President Donald Trump nominated to the Federal Reserve’s top ranks, just got an earful about the importance of the central bank’s independence – just as the Trump administration actively defends removing Fed Governor Lisa Cook from her post. The Senate Banking Committee

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Brace yourselves, workers. Your health insurance at the job could cost you a lot more in 2026. Although overall inflation is more muted than a few years ago, employers are preparing for the steepest increase in health benefit costs in 15 years, according to Mercer’s National Survey of Employer-Sponsored

By Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — Christopher Ruddy’s pro-Trump channel Newsmax on Wednesday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Fox News, accusing the Rupert Murdoch-owned broadcaster of illegally blocking competition in the right-wing pay-TV market. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the Fox News Network and its

By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Job growth was so weak in July that President Donald Trump fired the head of the bureau charged with collecting employment data, baselessly claiming the data was rigged. But fresh figures out Wednesday show that those meager job gains weren’t an anomaly: For the first time in more than

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — The majority of the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump imposed during his second term face one final litmus test that will determine whether he can continue to levy them – and also whether businesses are eligible for massive refunds. That potentially dramatic turn in the tariff saga comes after

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — A federal appeals court ruled that Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, a Federal Trade Commission commissioner that President Donald Trump fired, can be temporarily reinstated in an order Tuesday. Trump fired Slaughter and another Democratic FTC commissioner, Alvaro Bedoya, in March. While a lower district court ordered her reinstatement

By John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — The S&P 500 has soared nearly 30% since its low point in April and investors have cheered the index’s ascent to record highs. The market’s rally also means stocks are relatively expensive — and more vulnerable to a surprise. Stocks had a shaky start to September as

By Olesya Dmitracova, CNN London (CNN) — The United States is sliding into 1930s-style autocratic politics, billionaire Ray Dalio has warned. “I think that what is happening now politically and socially is analogous to what happened around the world in the 1930-40 period,” the founder of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest hedge funds,

By Kate Trafecante, Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN (CNN) — Kraft Heinz, the gigantic packaged foods business, is splitting into two separate publicly traded businesses, the company announced Tuesday, the latest mega food business to unwind its strategy to offer everything for everyone. The new companies haven’t yet been named. One will focus on faster-growing businesses, such

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Like many of the young people in her Indigenous Anishinaabe community in the upper peninsula of Michigan, Danielle Boyer grew up speaking only a little of her people’s native language, Anishinaabemowin. “In our community, generational language loss is very rapid,” she told CNN. “A lot of our

SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES, WALT DISNEY PICTURES, COLUMBIA PICTURES, UNIVERSAL PICTURES, WARNER BROS. PICTURES, CNN By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — This year’s Labor Day weekend was so sleepy for movie ticket sales that a 50-year-old shark thriller chewed up and spit out most of the competition. The re-release of Universal Pictures’ “Jaws,” the Stephen Spielberg classic

CNN, KCAL, KCBS, X, @TESLA, @TESLA CLUB-SOCAL, @BLKMDL3, JACOB TOWE, GETTY IMAGES, @TESLAOWNERSSV, KCAL/KCBS, X/@Tesla, X/@Tesla Club-SoCal, X/@BLKMDL3, X/@teslaownersSV By Hadas Gold, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — On an unassuming corner in West Hollywood, a massive round silver building towers over the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Orange Drive. The Tesla Diner, which opened

CNN By Devan Cole, Katelyn Polantz, Ramishah Maruf, Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court Friday struck down many of President Donald Trump’s historic tariffs, saying he unlawfully leaned on emergency powers to impose the import taxes. The International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize tariffs like the ones Trump used the