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PepsiCo plans to raise prices on some snacks and drinks and slash corporate costs after a disappointing performance in North America during the third quarter.

The Labor Department announced sweeping new punishments Thursday against major firms that it said are laying off American workers and replacing them with lower-paid foreign guest workers.

Tom Cruise's "Digger" is projected to lose Warner Bros. about $250M by the end of its run, even after post-theatrical revenue is counted. Some have described it as the biggest loss of Cruise's career.

Dr. Nigar Nangrahari was on a night shift in a Kabul hospital when the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan began 25 years ago - an event that would shape her and her country's future for decades to come.

Some of the guardrails that OpenAI included in its ChatGPT for Teens product don't work as intended and the chatbot poses an "unacceptable risk" to children, according to a report Wednesday by Common Sense Media.

Foreign workers building the vast new U.S. consulate compound in Milan signed agreements at a Milan hotel Wednesday securing payouts averaging $50,400 each for alleged labor abuses while working for an American construction company.

A startup nuclear power company this week became the first in the nation to apply to connect its next-generation reactors to the electrical grid.

STUDIO STUDY: Major Hollywood studios now spend 42% of their film production budgets on movies shot mostly or partly in the United States, down from 74% a quarter-century ago.

Foreign workers building the vast new U.S. consulate compound in Milan signed agreements at a Milan hotel Wednesday securing payouts averaging 45,000 euros ($50,400) each for alleged labor abuses while working for an American construction company.

U.S. stocks pulled back from their record on Wednesday.