Social Security benefits will increase by 3.2% in 2024, the Social Security Administration announced Thursday morning. That adds about $50 monthly to the average retirement benefit consumers will receive beginning…
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Walgreens Boots Alliance has chosen veteran health care executive Tim Wentworth as the company’s new chief executive. Wentworth is the former CEO of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefits management company, Express Scripts,…
Recent strikes by Hollywood talent and United Auto Workers union members are a “drag” on business travel demand, which is otherwise recovering, Delta Air Lines President Glen Hauenstein said Thursday. Delta has…
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Inflation leveled off at 3.7% in September, continuing a gradual consumer price slowdown
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Inflation leveled off to 3.7% in September compared to a year ago, extending a gradual slowdown in consumer prices, even as it slowed to 0.4% from 0.6% in August. The…
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Supreme Court declines to hear case challenging FDA authority to reject flavored e-cigarettes
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear arguments in a case challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s authority to reject approvals of flavored electronic cigarettes. The case is one of several challenges to…
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‘Kill us or send us home’: Workers at Amazon in Saudi Arabia say recruiters exploited them
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This story was reported in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism and The Guardian. Momtaj Mansur flew to Saudi Arabia in September 2021, excited…
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New inflation data to reveal consumer strength amid highest interest rates in two decades
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The U.S. government will make its next monthly inflation report Thursday, and it’s generally expected that it will show inflation is cooling off. The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release…
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UAW says it’s expanding strike to include major Ford truck plant in Kentucky
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DETROIT — The United Auto Workers union significantly escalated its strikes against Detroit Three automakers Wednesday by going on strike against a major Ford truck plant in Louisville, Kentucky. In…
The United Auto Workers strike against the Big Three U.S. automakers continues, but union President Shawn Fain said Friday that the labor stoppage isn’t expanding as the walkout closes out…
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Star witness says FTX head Sam Bankman-Fried told her to commit crimes and mislead lenders
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Caroline Ellison testified that FTX cofounder Sam Bankman-Fried told her to steal money from FTX’s customers and use them to repay firms that had lent money to Alameda Research, the…