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Rescuers work beside the wreckage of an Ethiopian Airlines’ aircraft at the crash site, some 50 km east of Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, on March 10, 2019. Wang Shoubao | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images The number of people killed in commercial airplane crashes more than halved in 2019 from the previous year,

Workers producing clothes in a factory in Huaibei, China. STR | AFP | Getty Images A private survey released on Thursday showed China’s manufacturing activity expanded in the month of December. The Markit/Caixin Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for manufacturing came in at 51.5, compared to 51.8 in November. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected the private manufacturing

An employee holds a jar of marijuana on sale after it became legal in the state to sell recreational marijuana to customers over 21 years old in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Illinois begins the legal sale of marijuana on Jan 1, 2020. Matthew Hatcher | Reuters Illinois rings in the new year on Wednesday by joining

Jeff Kravitz Mariah Carey’s Twitter account was hacked on New Year’s Eve allegedly by the same group that took control of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account. Dozens of tweets were posted on the hacked account, some using the N-word and others referring to the Chuckling Squad, a hacker group that took control of Dorsey’s account,

An employee picks up a Juul Labs device kit for a customer at a store in San Francisco. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Trump administration will ban flavored e-cigarette pods, with the exception of menthol and tobacco flavors, and flavored liquid nicotine products commonly sold in vape shops, a senior administration

Defensive back Rashad Fenton #27 of the Kansas City Chiefs and teammates celebrate an interception in front of a television cameraman in the fourth quarter of the game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Estadio Azteca on November 18, 2019 in Mexico City, Mexico. Manuel Velasquez | Getty Images The National Football League is celebrating

Ousted Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn issued a statement on Tuesday confirming reports that he’s left Japan and is now in Lebanon. “I am now in Lebanon and will no longer be held hostage by a rigged Japanese justice system where guilt is presumed, discrimination is rampant, and basic human rights are denied, in flagrant disregard

This photo taken on May 3, 2018 shows a worker cutting steel at a factory in Huaibei in China’s eastern Anhui province. AFP | Getty Images China’s official Purchasing Managers’ Index for manufacturing came in slightly above expectations at 50.2 for the month of December, the country’s statistics bureau said on Tuesday. Economists polled by Reuters had

Miles Sanders #26 of the Philadelphia Eagles is tackled by Deone Bucannon #29 of the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium on December 29, 2019 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Steven Ryan / Getty Images NFL viewership ratings are on the rise for the second straight year, giving league officials an edge in pushing to

A nurse holds up a one dose bottle and a prepared syringe of measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine made by Merck at the Utah County Health Department on April 29, 2019 in Provo, Utah. George Frey | Getty Images A cabal of doctors are hiding the cure for cancer, berries are more effective than

A canceled flight, in many of us, inspires frustration and anger. And for billionaire Richard Branson, it’s no different. Only when the British entrepreneur was met with a cancelled flight in the early 80s, it inspired another response, too: A new business idea. Branson — already a successful businessman, having formed Virgin Records some years

An Avengers fan holds tickets at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood to attend the opening screening of “Avengers: Endgame” in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 25, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters The 2019 U.S. box office is headed toward the second-best annual haul in cinematic history. As of Sunday, the movies released this year

A Barney’s store stands in lower Manhattan on August 06, 2019 in New York City. Barneys, one of America’s most exclusive clothing stores, has filed for bankruptcy. Spencer Platt | Getty Images 2019 brought with it more retail bankruptcies. And the implications have been more store closures, thousands of lost jobs and an vastly different

General Motors’ CEO Mary Barra testifies during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, on April 1, 2014 in Washington. Getty Images DETROIT — Mary Barra became one of America’s best-known executives when she took the helm as the first female CEO of General Motors in 2014. But the recognition quickly turned

A contractor guides a steel beam into place while working on the Korean Air Wilshire Grand hotel and office building in downtown Los Angeles. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images For some people, a bad day at work means missing a deadline or getting yelled at by your boss. For others, it means

The Food and Drug Administration‘s call on whether to approve Biogen‘s experimental Alzheimer’s drug, aducanumab, will be the “most important decision” the federal regulator will make in 2020, Bernstein analyst Ronny Gal said Friday. When asked if he thought the FDA would approve the drug, Gal said, “Yes.” “[But] you’ve got to be cautious about

The Mandalorian and the Child on Disney+’s “The Mandalorian.” Disney Season two of the beloved Disney+ Star Wars show “The Mandalorian” will be released in fall 2020, showrunner Jon Favreau said Friday. Favreau tweeted out the date along with a photo of a statuette of Gamorrean, a green-skinned pig-like species seen in the Star Wars

A display at a Michael’s store Source: Michael’s Michaels Companies is replacing its new CEO Mark Cosby after just over two months, hiring Walmart executive Ashley Buchanan to run the arts and crafts retailer as part of a leadership shuffle announced Friday. Buchanan will become the president and designated CEO starting on Jan. 6 while

Investors should take a look at a company’s fundamentals in order to decipher a “signal” from the “noise” in a particular stock’s moves in the market, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said. A signal means that the shares will keep running in the same direction. Noise, on the other hand, is just noise, which could be a

Donald Trump in Home Alone 2 Source: YouTube The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said Thursday that a TV version of the Christmas movie “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” which erased a cameo from President Donald Trump, was edited years before Trump became president. The Trump-free version of the 1992 film, which aired on the