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dowell/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Layoffs have battered the tech industry in 2023, carrying over a series of job cuts that began last year. In all, about 50,000 people have lost their positions this mo...

Marko Geber/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The term "quiet quitting" went viral last year, describing people who stay in their jobs but mentally take a step back -- for example, working the bare minimum an...

Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- When President Joe Biden signed the $369 billion Inflation Reduction Act in August, supporters hailed the measure as the largest climate investment in the nation'...

(NEW YORK) -- Disgraced crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried has made "recent attempts" to contact prospective witnesses in his criminal case, federal prosecutors said Friday in a letter to the judge th...

Anchalee Phanmaha/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Continued recession fears and a cascade of tech industry layoffs have drawn renewed attention to severance packages, the compensation offered to some depart...

Nicky J Sims/Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- Human-made chemicals known as PFAS are back in the spotlight after the feminine hygiene company Thinx settled a class-action lawsuit earlier this month for...

Curt Dell said he lost more than $200,000 worth of Bitcoin after Celsius filed for bankruptcy. - ABC News(NEW YORK) -- It seemed like cryptocurrency was having a moment. At the start of 2022, the Supe...

Javier Ghersi/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. economy grew robustly at the end of last year, defying recession fears and weathering an aggressive series of interest rate hikes from the Federal Re...

Mattel(NEW YORK) -- Barbie is honoring the life and legacy of Bessie Coleman with a new doll. Coleman, whose birthday falls on Jan. 26, was the first Black and Native American female aviator and the f...

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A viral controversy over the use of facial recognition technology to bar customers from New York City performance venues has drawn the attention of the st...