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How a new credit card code could help stop mass shootings
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A gunman in Aurora, Colorado, who killed 12 people in a mass shooting at a movie theater, in 2012, legally acquired weapons and ammunition using a credit card...
Max Zahn, ABC News Sep 13, 2022

Twitter whistleblower details allegations to lawmakers
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A whistleblower on Tuesday detailed a slate of explosive allegations against Twitter to congressional lawmakers, describing what he said were widespread secur...
John Parkinson, ABC News Sep 13, 2022

US rent prices finally showing signs of cooling down
Thomas Winz/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Americans are finally starting to see the red-hot rental market begin to cool off, after record growth. A combination of strong demand, low supply and high inflat...
Alexis Christoforous, ABC News Sep 13, 2022

Consumer prices rise unexpectedly in August, sending stock market tumbling
Javier Ghersi/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A hotter-than-expected inflation report on Tuesday sent the stock market tumbling. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 1,200 points, which amounted ...
Max Zahn, ABC News Sep 13, 2022

Single mom who paid off $34K of debt empowers other single moms to face their debts
Courtesy Dyana King(NEW YORK) -- A single mom who found herself saddled with more than $34,000 in debt six years ago is sharing her journey to becoming debt free and is now empowering other single mot...
Yi-Jin Yu, ABC News Sep 13, 2022

USDA flags some HelloFresh meal kit ground beef for possible E. coli contamination
U.S. Department of Agriculture (WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service issued a public health alert Saturday over ground beef products in HelloFresh mea...
Ivan Pereira, ABC News Sep 13, 2022

UK rail, postal workers cancel strikes after Queen’s death
Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- British rail and postal workers on Thursday canceled scheduled strikes after Queen Elizabeth II died earlier that day. The moves pause worker protests tha...
Max Zahn, ABC News Sep 09, 2022

British PM Liz Truss reveals plan to freeze energy prices. Would it work in US?
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images(LONDON) -- New British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Thursday responded to skyrocketing energy prices in dramatic fashion with plans for a freeze on natural gas and electricity ...
Max Zahn, ABC News Sep 09, 2022

Social media preys on vulnerability of users to create algorithms, author says
Karl Tapales/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Social media companies have deliberately manipulated the desires and fears of its users to drive their engagement metrics which has created an addiction, accordi...
ABC News Sep 08, 2022

Google workers battle company over 'life and death' abortion policies
Zhang Yi/VCG via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Immediately after the Supreme Court released a ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, in June, a slew of major U.S. companies, like Meta and JPMorgan Chase, a...
Max Zahn, ABC News Sep 07, 2022
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