Stock indexes had a mild rebound following a significant sell-off Monday that resulted in the market’s worst day in almost two years. The S&P 500 and the tech-focused Nasdaq Composite both closed 1% higher. The…
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Disney is raising prices on its streaming platforms. Starting mid-October, most plans for Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ will cost $1 to $2 more per month, according to a press release Tuesday. The most expensive plans for…
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DETROIT — A once “dirty” word, and business, in the automotive industry has become a multibillion-dollar battleground for U.S. automakers, led by Ford Motor. The Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker has turned its fleet business, which includes sales…
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Alex Ingrim knows a lot about how to move to a new country. He was studying in San Diego when a study abroad trip to France led him to meet his now-wife, Louisa; in the 17…
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Mortgage interest rates dropped last week to the lowest level since May 2023, causing a surge in mortgage demand from both homebuyers and especially current homeowners. Total mortgage application volume rose 6.9% last week compared…
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Business
Microsoft fires back at Delta after massive outage, says airline declined ‘repeated’ offers for help
Microsoft fired back at Delta Air Lines on Tuesday accusing the carrier of not modernizing its technology before it canceled thousands of flights in the wake of last month’s global massive IT outage. Delta CEO Ed Bastian told CNBC last week…
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In the market’s eyes, the Federal Reserve finds itself either poised to head off a recession or doomed to repeat the mistakes of its recent past — when it was too late seeing a coming…
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World News
‘We shoot first, ask questions later’: Why some Israeli reservists refuse to go back to Gaza
Every day for two months, Michael Ofer Ziv spent hours watching grainy, black-and-white footage of the Gaza Strip from a tiny room across the border. As an operations commander, he was tracking Israeli forces inside…
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Israeli minister says it may be ‘moral’ to starve 2 million Gazans, but ‘no one in the world would let us’
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said “it may be just and moral” to starve 2 million Gaza residents until Israeli hostages are returned, but “no one in the world would let us.” In a speech…
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‘They tried to kill people:’ Rotherham residents despair after riot at hotel housing asylum seekers
Like many nondescript hotels in provincial cities around the UK, the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham has been used for years by the British government to house asylum seekers trapped in administrative limbo. There have…