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"Nightcap's" Jon Sarlin asks CNN's Peter Valdes-Dapena if used cars will keep getting cheaper and if more EV price cuts are coming. Plus, Lizzie Post, the great-great granddaughter of etiquette icon Emily Post, shares when to tip and when to skip. To get the day's business headlines sent directly to your inbox, sign up for the Nightcap newsletter.
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As recently as last year, Ozzy Osbourne had no plans to hang up his cloak. The Prince of Darkness said he had another tour, even with the Parkinson's diagnosis he received in 2003.
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After House lawmakers voted to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from the Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) denounced House Republicans for what she sees as a "continued attack" against women of color.
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A man in northern New York pleaded guilty to federal charges Wednesday over sending threatening voicemails to Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene last March.
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Activists from the campaign group Greenpeace have boarded a ship in the Atlantic Ocean and scaled a Shell oil platform that is currently being transported to the North Sea.
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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will deliver the Republican response to President Joe Biden's upcoming State of the Union address, according to an announcement from GOP congressional leaders.
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The double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh continued Thursday with testimony about the disgraced attorney's alleged financial crimes, which prosecutors have suggested were about to be revealed when Murdaugh allegedly killed his wife and son in an effort to distract from those schemes.
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The FBI is expected to search former Vice President Mike Pence's house in Indiana and office in Washington for additional classified materials soon, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.
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A scan of the skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish has led to the discovery of the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain, shining a new light on the early evolution of bony fish.
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The US has transferred a Guantanamo Bay detainee who was convicted of terrorism offenses in 2012 to Belize, the Pentagon announced on Thursday.
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In the latest episode of "Unfiltered," SE Cupp argues former President Donald Trump, now a 2024 presidential hopeful, is struggling to build momentum around his campaign -- finding that his old tactics no longer resonate the way they once did.
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Mortgage rates fell slightly this week, as a smaller rate hike by the Federal Reserve signaled promising improvement on inflation.
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One of the brightest highlights of the recent Sundance Film Festival was the debut of the documentary "Judy Blume Forever," a celebration of one of our country's greatest young adult authors. It could have been simply a warm, nostalgic look back at a writer beloved by generations of readers. Instead, the film, which will be on Amazon Prime on April 21, has taken on a disturbing timeliness thanks to a bleak resurgence of censorship and book-banning in America. Blume's state, Florida, has been in the spotlight this week for a new set of book-regulating laws in schools that recall, as CNN's Don Lemon put it, the 1950s.
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Let the guessing games begin.
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She's one of the bestselling performers in music, headlining this year's Super Bowl halftime show. He's one of the world's most successful and influential athletes on the verge of breaking an all-time record.
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TLC's "MILF Manor" isn't marketed as a horror show. The new series appears to the innocent eye as a predictably campy dating show starring eight older women (the titular MILFS) looking to find love with a bunch of younger men in some anonymous tropical locale.
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