“A majority of consumers, Americans and people around the world are chronically dehydrated,” he told CNN News. “They just don’t know it.” Even if consumers don’t know if they’re actually suffering from a lack of fluids, they’re still buying electrolyte-filled products like they…
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McDonald’s is pulling the plug on its CosMc’s spinoff just two years after the alien-themed spinoff took off. The chain announced Friday that it’s closing all five locations next month. CosMc’s, named after a little-known alien McDonald’s character, opened in 2023 in…
Russia launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles at Kyiv overnight in one of the biggest combined aerial attacks on the Ukrainian capital of the three-year war, damaging several apartment buildings and injuring 15 people. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a…
Social media’s harmful impact on the mental health of children and teenagers is well documented. Now, new research suggests that the widespread marketing of unhealthy food and drinks on social media is influencing the food choices of young people and potentially impacting…
Starbucks workers staged walkouts at dozens of coffee shops in the United States this week to protest a policy change in their dress code that their union says should have been made through collective bargaining. Since May 11, more than…
Bayer AG is pursuing a new multibillion-dollar settlement over claims that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer—and is preparing to place its U.S. subsidiary Monsanto into bankruptcy if talks with tort plaintiffs collapse, according to people familiar with the matter. The…
Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT), the world’s largest retailer, announced on Tuesday that it will begin raising prices on a broad range of consumer goods in the coming months, citing the intensifying impact of U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports and other…
John Randal Tyson, the former Tyson Foods CFO whose recent arrests made headlines last year, has a new high-profile job at his family’s meatpacking company. The scion has been appointed to the company’s board, along with his sister Olivia, according to a corporate statement. “Both…
Long-delayed next Air Force One jets from Boeing might now be delivered by 2027 — in time for President Donald Trump to use them, according to a top Air Force official. While that’s still years behind the original delivery date…
Krispy Kreme’s partnership with McDonald’s to sell its doughnuts at all of the burger chain’s US restaurants didn’t turn out as sweet as it thought. The doughnut chain announced in its earnings release Thursday that it is “reassessing the deployment”…
