In the latest sign of turmoil inside Twitter amid Elon Musk’s planned buyout of the company, the company has fired two senior executives. A Twitter general manager, Kayvon Beykpour, is leaving after seven years.  In a series of tweets Thursday, Beykpour said that CEO Parag Agrawal “asked me to leave …

One of the men convicted of murder in the street chase and fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery spoke with his former boss, the local district attorney, several times by phone in the days and weeks following the 2020 killing, according to a court document filed Thursday. Investigators found that the …

Stocks soared to their biggest gain in two years Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell downplayed the likelihood of an even larger rate increase than the one just announced Wednesday. That allayed investor concerns that the central bank was on its way to a massive increase of three-quarters of …

A New York court on Tuesday denied former President Donald Trump’s request to put a halt to the $10,000 in daily fines and a contempt order levied by a judge on April 25. Trump was held in contempt after failing to comply with a December 1, 2021, subpoena from New …

The Biden administration is pulling the plug on incandescent light bulbs in favor of energy-efficient light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. The phaseout of the old-fashioned bulbs is aimed at reducing utility bills and conserving energy. The U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday said it was raising energy efficiency standards for light …

An unruly passenger was arrested after allegedly hitting a flight attendant in the chest with the plane’s phone. The passenger, Christopher Morgan, told the FBI that the flight attendant made him “uncomfortable” because he is “homophobic,” according to the criminal complaint. On April 22, Morgan was flying from Atlanta, Georgia, …

Prosecutors investigating Hunter Biden subpoenaed documents from a paternity lawsuit that included tax records for the president’s son, according to documents and an attorney involved in the matter. “They wanted every record relating to Hunter Biden we had,” Clint Lancaster told CBS News. Lancaster represented Lunden Roberts, a woman who …

Subscriptions have seeped into nearly every consumer industry, from TV to tacos. There are even services that help subscribers cancel all their subscriptions. But one industry has notably lagged: travel. That could be changing. The market for travel subscriptions has started to expand and includes cheap flights, airport lounges, luxury …

The Republican National Committee (RNC) voted unanimously on Thursday to ban future GOP presidential nominees from participating in debates put on by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), the nonpartisan body that has organized general election debates since 1988. “The Commission on Presidential Debates is biased and has refused to …

Lyft and Uber suspended surge pricing in the vicinity of a Brooklyn, New York neighborhood where at least 10 people were shot on a subway train after social media users posted screenshots showing the soaring cost to book rides on the rideshare services. Both companies seemed to have had a …