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USDA (NEW YORK) — Hillshire Brands Company has recalled nearly 15,876 pounds of blended meat and poultry smoked sausage products “that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically bone fragments,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Saturday. The recalled 14-ounce packages of “HILLSHIRE FARM SMOKED SAUSAGE MADE WITH PORK, TURKEY, […]

ABC News (SAN FRANCISCO) — With self-driving cars already here, San Francisco took another step forward recently, allowing companies to offer driverless taxi services in the city. Last month, officials voted to allow two companies, Cruise and Waymo, to charge passengers to ride in their driverless cars across all of San Francisco, a city with […]

Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Nearly 15 million cable viewers lost access to ESPN, ABC and other Disney-owned channels over Labor Day weekend when the global entertainment company and cable giant Charter Communications failed to renew a distribution deal. Attempting to watch the U.S. Open or games from the first weekend of […]

Bill Pugliano/Getty Images (DETROIT) — A four-day workweek at full-time pay, a 46% wage increase and a share of company profits are among the demands of the union representing approximately 150,000 workers at the Big 3 U.S. automakers — General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. The United Auto Workers, or UAW, has vowed to launch a strike […]

Disney (NEW YORK) — The all-new Disney Treasure is the sixth ship to join the magical Disney Cruise Line fleet, and while it doesn’t officially set sail until December 2024, ABC News’ Good Morning America got a sneak peek at what’s on deck. In a virtual grand reveal event on Tuesday morning, Disney Cruise Line […]

Lucid Motors (NEW YORK) — America has range anxiety. Lucid Motors CEO Peter Rawlinson may have an answer. Rawlinson, an industry veteran who previously engineered cars for Tesla, Lotus and Jaguar, built the Lucid Air all-electric sedan to quell range fears and transform how motorists drive. The sleek and futuristic Lucid Air ($82,400) can travel […]

Kwanchai Lerttanapunyaporn/EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW  YORK) — The U.S. hiring spree slowed in recent months as employers took on fewer workers and provided smaller wage increases, government data released on Friday showed. Hiring held steady in August as the U.S. economy added 187,000 jobs, according to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While the […]

Greg Bajor/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the summer winds down, Labor Day weekend travel is about to get underway. Here’s what you need to know before hitting the road or heading to the airport. The skies Labor Day weekend is projected to be the third-busiest travel weekend of the year, according to the Federal […]

jmsilva/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Low water levels at the Panama Canal are causing a traffic jam at the historic trading route that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, threatening to ensnarl the holiday shipping season and raising alarm among canal officials. The 109-year-old canal works through a water lock system that move ships up […]

Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As Hurricane Idalia slams parts of Florida, the state’s huge tourism industry is also being impacted. The storm made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region, north of Tampa, on Wednesday morning as an “extremely dangerous” Category 3 storm, according to the National Weather Service. […]