Federal health officials have expanded an outbreak of infant botulism tied to ByHeart baby formula to include any illnesses reported since the company began production in 2022.

The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday for the third time since September, bringing its key rate to about 3.6%, the lowest in nearly three years.

The New York Times and President Donald Trump are fighting again.

Travelers who are now able to come to the United States without a visa might soon need to provide social media, email, and family history details to the Department of Homeland Security.

Oil companies have offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico in the first offshore lease sale in the region since 2023.

The billionaire and author MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits Tuesday, bringing her overall giving since 2019 to $26.3 billion.

Waymo's self-driving taxis have been in the spotlight for both negative and positive reasons.

USA Today's editor in chief, Caren Bohan, is out of the job she's held for a little more than a year.

Mega billionaire Elon Musk said his efforts leading the Department of Government Efficiency were only “somewhat successful” and he would not do it over again.

CBS says Tony Dokoupil will take over at the beginning of next year as anchor of its flagship “CBS Evening News” broadcast.

Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 says it has taken control of the strategic city of Uvira in eastern Congo.

If you’re in the market for a new vehicle, the remaining weeks of December could be a great time to buy.

Three weeks after Kroger announced it plans to pull out of Groveland, a CareerSource job fair is being held at the soon-to-be closed fulfillment center.

Paramount Skydance says that the Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings withdrew from its bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery to avert a national security review.

President Donald Trump’s push for the largest mass deportation in history has had an outsized impact on the child care field, which is heavily reliant on immigrants and already strained by a worker shortage.

Southeast Asia is embracing the embattled offshore wind industry as it reels from U.S. President Donald Trump’s rejection of renewable energy.

The U.S. stock market neared its all-time high after the Federal Reserve cut its main interest rate to bolster the job market, and hopes strengthened for more cuts to come in 2026.

The Federal Reserve reduced its key interest rate for the third time in a row Wednesday but signaled that it may leave rates unchanged in the coming months.

A to-do list and travel plans found during Luigi Mangione’s arrest and revealed in court this week shed new light on the steps he may have taken — or planned to take — to avoid capture after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killing last year.

Cracker Barrel posted lower-than-expected sales in its fiscal first quarter and lowered its revenue forecast for the year as it continued to feel the fallout from a botched plan to revamp its logo and restaurants.

The Environmental Protection Agency has removed references to fossil fuels from its online page about climate change causes.

Some have serious concerns about where an energy company wants to build a plant to fuel the world’s busiest cruise port.

Rejoice, New Year’s dieters: Oreos are getting a sugar-free option.

The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits in 2025 Tuesday, marking a significant increase in her annual giving from recent years.

OpenAI has appointed Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its first chief of revenue.

Investors have a valuable escape hatch if their employer-provided HSA comes up short.

Paired with high-deductible healthcare plans, health savings accounts help ease healthcare costs.

Daytona Beach’s Beachside Redevelopment Board is set to discuss new security measures this week, including whether to bring additional patrols to the area similar to those already in place across the bridge on Beach Street.

U.S. job openings barely budged in October, coming in at 7.7 million amid uncertainty over the direction of the American economy.

Microsoft has announced its largest-ever Asia investment of $17.5 billion in India to enhance cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure over the next four years.

A unique app is changing the dating game for disabled and chronically ill people.

The European Union is investigating Google for potential antitrust violations related to its AI models.

Australia has introduced a world-first social media ban for children under 16, starting Wednesday.

The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most pressing environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity loss that threaten over 1 million plant and animal species with extinction.

The Czech Republic's president has sworn in Andrej Babiš as the country's new prime minister after October's parliamentary election.

The International Monetary Fund says it has approved the release of $1.2 billion to Pakistan, giving the cash-strapped country a fresh boost as it works to recover from one of its worst economic crises in years.

At a nighttime event in Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump tried to emphasize his focus on combating inflation, although the issue couldn't quite command his full attention.

U.S. stocks largely held in place as Wall Street waits to hear what the Federal Reserve will say about interest rates.

A Beijing court has ruled Malaysia Airlines must pay $410,000 each to the families of eight passengers who went missing in the disappearance of Flight 370 more than a decade ago.

A federal judge has struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law.

The founder of Florida's native barbecue restaurant passed away over the weekend, the company announced on Monday.

PepsiCo plans to cut prices and eliminate some of its products under a deal with an activist investor announced Monday.

It's a tough time for CNN, which looks like it will be in management limbo for some time with Paramount Skydance's hostile takeover bid of its parent company, Warner Bros.

The Federal Reserve faces an unusually contentious meeting this week that will test Chair Jerome Powell’s ability to corral the necessary support from fellow policymakers for a third straight interest rate cut.

More people are turning to GoFundMe for help with basic needs such as housing and food.

President Donald Trump says he will allow Nvidia to sell its H200 computer chip used in the development of artificial intelligence to “approved customers” in China.

Incoming Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel is assembling his team to help him lead the conglomerate Warren Buffett built starting in January after a couple of key departures.

President Donald Trump won't be getting his wish, at least not soon.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says he has divested from his North Dakota soybean farmland.

The maker of an iPhone app that flagged sightings of U.S. immigration agents has sued the Trump administration for free speech violations.

The Golden Globes have introduced a best podcast category that's likely to spark conversations.

Paramount has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros.

IBM has announced it's acquiring data streaming platform Confluent in an $11 billion deal.

Angry farmers protesting delays in the payment of subsidies have swarmed onto the aircraft parkin area of the international airport on the southern Greek island of Crete.

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An official says the airspace over Yemen was briefly closed as tensions rose in the south of the country.

House Republicans in key battleground districts are working to contain the political fallout expected when thousands of their constituents face higher bills for health insurance coverage obtained through the Affordable Care Act.

New Publix stores are scheduled to open in Central Florida, though Publix officials said they’ll be missing a certain piece of equipment.

President Donald Trump says a deal struck by Netflix to buy Warner Bros.

U.S. stocks pulled away from their record heights.

The Supreme Court seems likely to expand presidential control over independent federal agencies, signaling support for President Donald Trump’s firing of board members.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is waiving part of a fine assessed against Southwest Airlines after the company canceled thousands of flights during a winter storm in 2022.

Police in Edmonton, Canada, have started a pilot project using AI-equipped body cameras to detect faces on a "high risk" watch list.

Tom Hicks, the Texas businessman and philanthropist who owned two Dallas-area professional sports franchises and an English Premier League soccer team, died Saturday.

Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court’s conservative majority on a steady march of increasing the power of the presidency.

The Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation into whether U.S. airlines complied with an emergency order to cut flights at 40 major airports during the recent government shutdown.

Lake County released a statement Friday that grocery company Kroger signed the termination agreement the county initiated last week. As part of the deal, the company must reimburse the county $460,714.53 by Dec. 31.

Vanity Fair is parting ways with West Coast editor Olivia Nuzzi amid controversy over her past coverage of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A statement Friday from Nuzzi and the magazine says they have mutually agreed to let her contract expire at the end of the year.

The nation’s freight railroads are going to be able to try relying more on technology and inspect their tracks less often after the federal government approved their waiver request on Friday.

Florida’s Republican-dominated congressional delegation is urging the Trump administration to drop a plan that would allow new oil drilling off the state’s coast.

Netflix's $72 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros.

Georgia's largest utility wants to spend more than $15 billion to increase its electricity capacity by 50% over the next six years to serve data centers.

Massachusetts’ highest court heard oral arguments Friday in the state’s lawsuit arguing that Meta designed features on Facebook and Instagram to make them addictive to young users.

President Donald Trump this week announced plans to weaken strict gas mileage requirements for automakers set under former President Joe Biden.

U.S. Steel says it'll resume making steel slabs at its Granite City Works plant in Illinois amid strengthening demand.

French officials are investigating an illegal drone overflight of the Atlantic coast base for France's nuclear-armed submarines.

Riot police have fired tear gas at farmers attempting to block the main access road to the international airport in Greece’s second-largest city Thessaloniki.

President Donald Trump's White House has established a hall of shame for journalists it finds guilty of media bias as it looks for new avenues of attack against legacy news outlets.

The Cooper family has worked in the coal industry in Colorado for generations.

Netflix has struck a deal to buy Warner Bros.

French first lady Brigitte Macron has reunited with a giant panda born in France during a visit to China with President Emmanuel Macron.

European Union regulators have fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X 120 million euros for failing to comply with digital regulations.

Pope Leo XIV has taken his biggest step yet to correct one of Pope Francis’ more problematic financial moves.

Chaos has gripped major Indian airports as passengers of IndiGo, the country's biggest airline, face massive flight disruptions.

The U.S. stock market rose to the edge of its all-time high.

Federal border agents have descended on a Hispanic enclave just outside New Orleans, and local business owners are suffering.

The Trump administration will start sending more water to California farmers in the state's crop-rich Central Valley.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned people to stop using certain types of glucose monitor sensors that were linked to seven deaths.

The U.S. Treasury has imposed a $7 million fine on a New York property management firm for allegedly violating Russia-related sanctions.

A strong quarter at Build-A-Bear Workshop in a bounce back year for the retailer was overshadowed by the growing weight of tariffs in an ongoing trade war waged by President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump plans to visit Pennsylvania next week to highlight his efforts to reduce inflation.

Two Black men who were fired by President Donald Trump from the National Transportation Safety Board and the U.S. Surface Transportation Board accused the administration Thursday of discriminating against them as part of a pattern of dismissing Black leaders.

Italian prosecutors have asked 13 high-end fashion firms to provide documents on governance, internal controls and audits.

Russian authorities say they have imposed restrictions on Apple's video calling service FaceTime, alleging it was being used for organizing what it called “terrorist activities.”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting India to strengthen economic and bilateral ties.

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level in more than three years last week, potentially complicating the Federal Reserve’s upcoming decision on interest rates.

Britain and Norway have announced joint naval patrols to protect undersea cables from Russia.

President Donald Trump praised the leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda for their courage as they signed onto a deal aimed at ending the conflict in eastern Congo.

At least four countries have announced they are pulling out of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest.