SUVs at a Chevrolet dealership in Oshawa, ON. Rene Johnston | Toronto Star | Getty Images DETROIT – Americans are expected to have bought fewer new vehicles last year than in recent years but spent a record amount on those new cars and trucks. Research and forecast firms Cox Automotive, Edmunds and J.D. Power/LMC Automotive
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A Lowe’s employee walks through the store during the grand opening of the Lowe’s store in San Francisco, California. Getty Images Lowe’s is looking to hire at least 53,000 people ahead of the spring season, the home improvement retailer’s busiest time of year, the company said Thursday in a press release. That’s less than Lowe’s
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