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Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Locked out of his work computer for more than a week, a two-year Twitter employee didn’t know whether he’d been laid off. So he asked CEO Elon Musk in a message on Twitter. “Maybe if enough people retweet you’ll answer me here?” Haraldur Thorleifsson, who joined the […]

Maskot/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For nearly four years, Arizona realtor Courtney Van Cott has been consumed by a legal battle involving a noncompete agreement. “You just have this cloud over you every single day,” she told ABC News in an exclusive interview. In 2019, Van Cott’s former employer sued her for nearly $200,000, alleging […]

Hershey’s (NEW YORK) — Chocolate lovers who can’t eat dairy are now in luck when it comes to two beloved milk chocolate treats from Hershey’s. As more people trend toward plant-based snacks, Hershey’s launched two treats to satiate the appetite for a milk chocolate alternative with Reese’s Plant Based Peanut Butter Cups and Hershey’s Plant […]

lechatnoir/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Department of Transportation introduced a new online tool for airline customers on Monday — a dashboard that aims to cut down on and ultimately eliminate extra fees families often pay for young children to sit with an adult family member, relative or caregiver on a flight. The Airline Family […]

Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Weight Watchers, now known as WW, is a diet program that has been around for decades, focusing on changing eating and activity patterns through a points system. Now the wellness company is making a multi-million dollar bet on the booming obesity drug business. WW announced Monday […]

Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday warned of potentially devastating consequences of a U.S. debt default and called on Congress to raise the debt ceiling. Speaking to the Senate banking committee, Powell said a potential U.S. debt default could be “extraordinarily adverse and do longstanding harm.” “At the end […]

Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit to stop the proposed merger between JetBlue and Spirit Airlines. The $3.8 billion merger would create the nation’s fifth largest airline, and would be the first U.S. airline merger since 2016 when Alaska Airways bought Virgin Atlantic. In anticipation of […]

Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Toblerone, the triangular-shaped chocolate with Switzerland’s famed Matterhorn mountain immortalized on its packaging, will soon be changing its look to adhere to Swiss legislation. The candy bar, which is molded to mimic a mountain peak, can no longer be dubbed “Swiss chocolate” after Mondelez, the parent company […]

Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Electric carmaker Tesla slashed the prices of its two most expensive cars in the U.S., the automaker’s website showed on Monday. The price cuts affected the performance version of the Model S and the more expensive Model X. The move follows a previous cut […]

Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, a graduate student studying economics and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, who is Black, said she never would have entered the field if she hadn’t met Lisa Cook. In 2017, then an undergraduate math major with little familiarity with economics, Opoku-Agyeman attended a seminar […]