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A group of retail industry insiders is taking a cue from Alibaba and creating a new shopping day to jumpstart the holiday season
A journalist takes a picture of a screen showing real-time data of transactions at Alibaba Group’s 11.11 global shopping festival ...
White House bars FDA commissioner from testifying before House committee
President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, speaks during a media ...
Millennials are flocking to Colorado because they see it as a quarantine haven — here’s what they’re saying about life in the Centennial state
Blaine Harrington III/Getty Images Colorado is emerging as a top destination for millennials who are looking to relocate during the ...
Trump tells supporters ‘you’ll never see me again’ if he loses to Biden
JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images At a campaign rally in North Carolina Saturday, President Donald Trump told attendees they’ll never ...
The top 10 coding languages recruiters are looking for right now — and how to learn them online for free
Coding bootcamp company Coding Dojo analyzed recent job postings to find which engineering languages are the most sought after. Shutterstock ...
Apps are tracking WhatsApp users’ online activity, including whom they’re likely talking to and when they’re sleeping
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Engagement with anti-vaxx Facebook pages more than trebled from July to August, analysis shows
A protester holds an anti-vaccination sign as supporters of President Donald Trump rally to reopen California as the coronavirus pandemic ...
Restaurants need to brace for 18 more months of extreme challenges — and the election is about to make things worse
A restaurant remains open in Bristow, Oklahoma. Nick Oxford/The Washington Post via Getty Images Restaurants are going to be facing ...
A striking new photo of Jupiter shows the Great Red Spot is shrinking – and other storms are growing
This photo of Jupiter, captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on August 25, 2020, provides astronomers with new information about ...
One stock market signal suggests the US presidential race is tightening, Goldman Sachs says
Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images The trading activity of certain stocks is sending a signal to investors that the upcoming Presidential election ...
Far-right conspiracy theorists say 94% of US COVID-19 deaths don’t count because those Americans had underlying conditions. That’s bogus.
Patient Doreen Mount is comforted by a radiologist in the X-ray department at the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital in Blackburn, ...
Mohamed El-Erian warns that stocks could tank if the Fed’s liquidity ‘engine’ stops running, cites disconnect between prices and fundamentals
Reuters/Lucy Nicholson Economist Mohamed El-Erian says markets may falter as the Fed’s liquidity “engine” becomes less and less powerful, and ...
The Tesla Model 3 might have the new Polestar 2 EV beat on paper, but the Polestar won me over — here’s why
Tesla Model 3 versus Polestar 2. Tesla and Kristen Lee/Business Insider I’ve tested both the Tesla Model 3 and the ...
Trump supporters staged a rally at a Virginia polling center during early voting, intimidating voters, election officials say
(File image) A supporter of President Trump waves flags outside of McKenzie Arena, where U.S. President Donald Trump is holding ...
The ban on TikTok downloads has been postponed by one week after Trump gave his ‘blessing’ to a deal with Oracle and Walmart
US President Donald Trump said he’s given the TikTok-Oracle deal his blessing. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images The US is ...
Kids in the UK are now spending more money on ‘Fortnite’ and ‘Roblox’ than candy and books
LPETTET/Getty Images Childrens’ spending habits in the UK have shifted to online games such as “Roblox” and “Fortnite” since lockdown ...
Donations to the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue surged after Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, breaking the platform’s record for donations received in a single hour
Flowers and light candies outside the Supreme Court Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, in Washington, after the Supreme Court announced that ...
POLL: 58% of American voters think the Senate should not fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court vacancy until after the election
President Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech as the 2020 Republican presidential nominee during the final event of the Republican ...
Jerry Nadler says Democrats should ‘immediately’ move to expand the Supreme Court if the GOP pushes a lame duck vote
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) questions Attorney General William Barr at a hearing in July. MATT MCCLAIN/POOL/AFP via ...
Oracle announces it will become a minority investor in TikTok Global after Trump indicates his approval
Reuters Oracle announced Saturday it will become a minority investor in TikTok’s global business, and will be its designated its ...
Trump says he’s given his ‘blessing’ to a proposed TikTok deal with Oracle and Walmart
President Donald Trump speaks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, before his departure ...
Trump says his Supreme Court pick will ‘most likely’ be a woman, and he’ll announce it next week
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press prior to his departure from the White House on September 19, ...
Susan Collins says the president elected on November 3 should be the one to pick the next Supreme Court justice
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is seen during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on September 9, 2020 ...
Wealthy expectant parents in New York are paying this couple hundreds of dollars to baby-proof their homes
A Baby Bodyguards team member in the process of babyproofing a client’s nursery. Baby Bodyguards Fred and Courtney Ilarraza are ...
High profile issues are now at stake on the Supreme Court in the wake of Ginsburg’s death
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the East conference room at the Supreme Court building. Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post ...
Chuck Schumer: If GOP tries to fill Ginsburg’s seat, ‘nothing is off the table next year’
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) at a press conference in Washington. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images In a ...
Supreme Court Justices mourn the death but praise the legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gather for a formal group portrait on Nov. 30, 2018. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite) Associated ...
These 5 fitness and sporting goods companies have filed for bankruptcy in 2020, as the coronavirus continues to dramatically change how Americans exercise
A Gold’s Gym location during the pandemic. J. Conrad Williams Jr./Newsday via Getty Images A growing number of fitness and ...
A Florida bar owner is banning customers from wearing masks and asking them to leave if they do
A waiter wearing a mask and gloves delivers food to a table to customers seated at an outdoor patio at ...
The physician accused of performing unwanted hysterectomies in an ICE detention center is not a board certified OB-GYN
BSIP/Getty Images Dr. Mahendra Amin, a physician accused of performing unnecessary and unwanted hysterectomies in an immigrant detention facility in ...
