K-shaped economy and inflation boost Black Friday sales by 4.1% from last year, online spending jumps 9.1%

US retail sales on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, climbed 4.1% compared with last year, according to data released Saturday by Mastercard SpendingPulse. Online shoppers alone ...

Trump maintains pressure campaign on Venezuela, saying its airspace should be considered closed

The United States continued its pressure campaign against Venezuela on Saturday as President Donald Trump issued a broad directive on social media, warning airlines, pilots and criminal networks to ...

The hottest new AI company is…Google?

“We’re delighted by Google’s success — they’ve made great advances in AI and we continue to supply to Google,” Nvidia wrote in a November 25 post on X, before adding that “NVIDIA offers greater ...

FDA official plans to change vaccine approval process, claiming that Covid-19 shots caused child deaths

A senior Food and Drug Administration official on Friday said the agency will change its vaccine approval process, alleging that Covid-19 vaccination resulted in the deaths of 10 children.

Angry extraterrestrials and ping-pong champions: A preview of movies streaming and in theaters this winter

A full 30 years after his debut “The Brothers McMullen,” actor-writer-director Edward Burns returns to the McMullen family for this holiday-timed sequel featuring Tracee Ellis Ross, Connie Britton and ...

A blue schoolbag in a mass grave. Sri Lanka’s bloody past is re-emerging from the soil

Many of the gravesites that pockmark the north and east of the country are believed to contain the victims of atrocities committed during the civil war. Caught between warring rebel fighters and the ...

Measles cases are surging, making global elimination a ‘distant goal,’ WHO says

For decades, measles vaccination has been a global success story. Deaths from measles dropped 88% around the world from 2000 to 2024, according to a new report from the World Health Organization, with ...

A hospital in a foreign land is the last place anyone thinks they’ll fall in love. But it happened to this couple

For our CNN Travel roundup this Thanksgiving weekend, we’re bringing you a potluck of stories about love, family and ...

A visual timeline of the few hours it took a small fire to grow into Hong Kong’s worst blaze in decades

In just a few short hours on Wednesday afternoon, what began as a small fire on the first floor of an apartment building swelled into a raging inferno that consumed seven high-rise towers on a Hong ...

Ukraine says it hit Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tankers with underwater drones in Black Sea

Ukrainian underwater drones have struck two tankers belonging to Russia’s so-called shadow fleet in the Black Sea, according to an official in Ukraine’s security services (SBU).

Wall Street is relying on the Supreme Court to protect the Fed. Is that wishful thinking?

Wall Street barely blinked at President Donald Trump’s attacks on the Federal Reserve this year. But its confidence could be shaken with an upcoming Supreme Court ruling.

Multiple arrested as protesters block federal agents at Manhattan garage

More than a dozen demonstrators were arrested in lower Manhattan on Saturday after their attempts to stop federal agents from conducting immigration and enforcement activities, according to a law ...