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Netflix Tops 325 Million Subscribers as 2025 Closes, Weighs Cash Use Ahead of Potential Warner Bros. Discovery Bid

Netflix ended 2025 with a record 325 million paying customers, underscoring its reach as the world’s largest subscription video service and setting the stage for another year of investment in original content and prospective acquisitions. The subscriber figure, disclosed with fourth-quarter results on Tuesday, 20 January 2026, highlighted the scale the Los Gatos, California-based company […]

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Surging Salt Demand Highlights Broader Preparations for Major U.S. Winter Storm

A hardware store owner in northern New Jersey said his business emptied its entire stock of rock salt on Tuesday morning as residents rushed to prepare for a powerful winter storm forecast to sweep across a broad section of the United States. The episode captures the sudden spike in consumer demand accompanying a system the […]

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Tech Leaders at Davos Outline Next Steps for Artificial Intelligence Adoption

Artificial intelligence again dominated discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where corporate chiefs gathered from 20 to 24 January. Yet this year’s conversation moved beyond comparing large language models or assessing which chatbot performs best. Executives focused instead on how companies intend to weave the technology into everyday operations and how that […]

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Bond and International Equity ETFs Attract Capital as S&P 500 Products Face Heavy Outflows

New York, Jan. 22, 2026 – Exchange-traded fund investors directed fresh capital toward broad bond and international equity products on Thursday, while some of the largest S&P 500-linked vehicles experienced sizable withdrawals, according to early-morning flow data. Broad Market Bond ETF Leads Fixed-Income Creations The iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (AGG) gathered approximately $279 […]

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Video Mattel celebrates ‘grandmother’ of Juneteenth Opal Lee with new Barbie doll

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Private Credit Expansion Fuels Concerns Over Transparency and Systemic Risk

The rapid expansion of private credit, an area of lending conducted by non-bank institutions, is drawing renewed scrutiny after several high-profile bankruptcies and warnings from prominent Wall Street figures. Although fears of an immediate crisis have eased since the autumn failures of auto-sector borrowers Tricolor and First Brands, analysts and regulators continue to question whether […]

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How a 5-Year Certificate of Deposit Can Triple Your Interest on a $10,000 Deposit

Putting cash in a certificate of deposit (CD) rarely grabs headlines, yet the product’s combination of fixed returns and federal insurance continues to attract savers who value predictability. Current rate conditions show why: while the national average yield for a 60-month CD sits at 1.34% annual percentage yield (APY), several banks and credit unions are […]

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UK Prime Minister, Prince Harry and European Officials Criticize Trump’s Comments on NATO Role in Afghanistan

Prince Harry, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and several European officials expressed strong disapproval on Friday after former U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that troops from NATO partners stayed “a little off the front lines” during the war in Afghanistan. Trump made the remarks in a televised interview on Thursday in Davos, Switzerland, while attending […]

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U.S. Airlines Cancel Close to 4,000 Weekend Flights Ahead of Major Winter Storm

WASHINGTON — Airlines across the United States have grounded thousands of flights scheduled for the holiday weekend as a widespread winter storm pushes east, threatening to blanket large portions of the country with snow, sleet and freezing rain and usher in a spell of sub-zero temperatures. Data from flight-tracking service FlightAware show more than 560 […]

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Gold Nears $5,000 While Silver Tops $100 as Investors Flee to Metals

Gold prices approached the $5,000 per ounce mark on Friday, capping the metal’s strongest week since 2020 and underscoring a broader flight to hard assets amid currency concerns and geopolitical tension. February futures on the COMEX settled at $4,983.10, up $69.70, or 1.42%, in late afternoon trading. The contract has risen 14% since the start […]

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Zoo Elephant ‘Spa Day’ Video Headlines Diverse ABC News Live Lineup

ABC News Live is streaming a broad slate of segments that range from animal care to severe-weather alerts. The service’s current roster is led by a video titled “Zoo elephants treated to ‘spa day,’” which shows pachyderms receiving attentive grooming in a setting identified only as a zoo. The clip places the animals at the […]

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Massive Winter Storm Threatens 170 Million Americans, Raising Concerns Over Damage, Travel and Energy Costs

The National Weather Service (NWS) is tracking a large-scale winter system expected to sweep from the southern Rockies to New England between Friday and Monday, bringing heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain to more than 170 million people. Forecasters warn that snowfall could top one foot in some locations, while “locally catastrophic” ice accumulations may […]