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(NEW YORK) — Bissell, a floor cleaning product company, recalled over 150,000 of its Multi Reach Hand and Floor Vacuum Cleaners due to a potential fire hazard, according to an announcement on the United States Product Safety Commission and a separate announcement on the company’s website. According to the USPSC’s release posted on Thursday, the […]

(WASHINGTON) — Chief executive officers of some of the biggest social media companies, from Facebook to Snapchat, were questioned Wednesday in a Senate hearing on Capitol Hill . Filling the seats behind them were parents, caregivers and loved ones of young people who they say were harmed due to social media use. In an emotional […]

(ORLANDO, Fla.) — A federal judge in Florida has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Disney against Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials over the state legislature’s decision to alter the governing structure of the Reedy Creek Improvement District. Disney had argued in the lawsuit, filed last April, that the change to the district, for which […]

Atlantide Phototravel/Getty Images (ORLANDO, Fla.) — A Florida judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Disney against Gov. Ron DeSantis over the state legislature’s decision to alter the governing structure of the Reedy Creek Improvement District. Disney had argued the change to the district, for which the company was the main landowner, was made in retaliation […]

(WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve left rates unchanged on Wednesday, delaying highly anticipated rate cuts that the central bank expects to make sometime this year. The fed funds rate remains between 5.25% and 5.5% “The Committee seeks to achieve maximum employment and inflation at the rate of 2 percent over the longer run,” the Fed said […]

Image Source/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun took responsibility for a door plug getting blown out of an Alaska Airlines flight over Oregon earlier this month in the company’s fourth quarter earnings call Wednesday. “We caused the problem,” Calhoun said. Calhoun said that while the company reported its fourth quarter and 2023 […]

(WASHINGTON) — The chief executives of the nation’s top social media companies will testify before Congress on Wednesday in a hearing intended to drum up support for federal legislation to safeguard children from the online world. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear from Linda Yaccarino, the chief of X, formerly known as Twitter; Shou Chew, […]

(WASHINGTON) — Washington, D.C., and Wall Street will closely watch an announcement from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday about whether to shift its benchmark interest rate. The move marks the first such decision since the Fed said last month that it expects to cut rates in 2024. Economists expect the Fed to leave rates unchanged, […]

(WASHINGTON) — When then-President Donald Trump falsely declared victory days after Election Night in 2020, dozens of CEOs at the nation’s top companies assembled on a Zoom call to prevent what they feared could be the end of democracy in the U.S. As Trump stands poised to win the Republican nomination in the 2024 contest, however, […]

(NEW YORK) — As the 2024 tax season kicked off across the nation Monday, the Internal Revenue Service is offering some new services it says will help make filing easier for taxpayers. The IRS is now offering Free File and Direct File for qualifying taxpayers and expanded in-person services through its Taxpayer Assistance Centers. The […]