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Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Ford announced this week that it is recalling more than 1.2 million of its vehicles over a serious issue with its brake fluid hoses. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Ford Fusions and Lincoln MKXs sold between 2013 and 2018 have an issue where the front […]

NurPhoto/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A ban on TikTok in the United States or a sale of the app by its Chinese owner, ByteDance, will not resolve national security concerns or fears TikTok could be used to siphon Americans’ data, according to a new cybersecurity report obtained by ABC News. The report, from the cybersecurity company […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Congress on Thursday the U.S. “banking system is sound” after two bank failures stirred economic fears. Yellen, testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, began her remarks by addressing the abrupt collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in California and Signature Bank in New York. “I can […]

IronHeart/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The word “bailout” is sure to make anyone who remembers the 2008 financial crisis nostalgic in all the worst ways. At the time, the government used taxpayer money to keep some of the country’s largest financial institutions afloat. Two regional banks recently collapsed. As depositors of those banks feared for […]

Andrea Ronchini/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The failure of Silicon Valley Bank, the second-biggest bank collapse in U.S. history, called into doubt the fate of roughly $175 billion in customer deposits. Days later, the U.S. government guaranteed the protection of all Silicon Valley Bank deposits but the turmoil left Americans with a lingering question: […]

lvcandy/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In the wake of last year’s collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the collapse this week of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank — representing the second and third largest bank failures in U.S. history — has renewed lingering questions about what role cryptocurrency is playing in financial sector failures. Signature […]

Javier Ghersi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Bank stocks in the U.S. and Europe tumbled on Wednesday as the global financial system continued to reckon with the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, the largest bank failure since 2008. Shares of Credit Suisse fell more than 26% in early trading after a top backer said he would not […]

Dairy Queen (NEW YORK) — There’s a new sweet treat on the menu at Dairy Queen for a limited time. The ice cream chain, known for its soft serve cones dipped in a quick-hardening shell, has added a new churro-flavored option to the menu. For a limited time, customers can order the cinnamon-sugar-topped Churro Dipped […]

Kraft Heinz (NEW YORK) — Lunchables are ready for their first day of school. In tandem with the National School Lunch Program, the ready-to-eat packaged Lunchables kits, made by Kraft Heinz, have been approved to be served in schools for the first time. “Ahead of the 2023-2024 school year, school administrators are now able to […]

Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — OpenAI released the latest version of ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence language model making significant waves in the tech industry, on Tuesday. GPT-4, the latest model, can understand images as input, meaning it can look at a photo and give the user general information about the image. The […]