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TikTok has replaced Google as the Internet’s most popular domain for 2021, according to the cybersecurity company Cloudflare on Tuesday....Read More

The S&P 500 rose 1.38% to its second consecutive record high Monday as markets entered a year-end “Santa Claus Rally.”...Read More

Ownership restrictions on foreign automakers will be lifted in 2022 under new economic “opening up” measures, the Chinese government said on Monday....Read More

Retail sales during the holiday season jumped 8.5% compared with 2020, according to a report published Sunday by the credit card company Mastercard....Read More

Christmas Day presented a mixed bag for shoppers and restaurant-goers looking for available locations on Saturday, with almost all big-box retailers closed but some restaurants chains open....Read More

NASA and the European Space Agency successfully launched the largest, most powerful telescope ever, the James Webb Space Telescope, from South America on Christmas morning....Read More

Carnival Cruise Line reported a new outbreak of COVID-19 on its ship the Carnival Freedom on Friday, the third Florida-based cruise to report such a problem in a week — even as Florida set new daily...

A Russian court imposed a nearly $100 million fine on Google and a nearly $30 million fine on Facebook parent company Meta over the companies’ failure to remove government-banned content....Read More

NASA and the European Space Agency plan to launch the most powerful telescope ever, the James Webb Space Telescope, from South America on Christmas morning....Read More

U.S. markets will enter the Christmas break on Friday with gains as the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 196 points, with investors looking past Omicron fears to positive economic data....Read More