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Disney+ password-sharing crackdown has begun ‘in earnest,’ but you can add an extra member to your account for a price

The streaming service rolled out a new ‘paid sharing’ option yesterday, marking a major shift in how it handles multiple users on the same account.

As Disney CEO Bob Iger announced during a recent earnings call, Disney+ has officially launched its password-sharing crackdown “in earnest.”

Here’s how Trump and Harris’s economic policies compare on key issues

Both candidates have offered new details about their economic proposals for taxes, cost of living, housing, and manufacturing.

With just 40 days remaining before the presidential election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are both working to woo voters with their economic plans.

Shein faces probe in Italy over alleged greenwashing

Under European Union anti-greenwashing regulations that came into force this year, companies are banned from making vague environmental claims about their products.

Italy’s antitrust agency has launched an investigation into a Dublin-based company that operates Shein‘s website and app over possibly misleading environmental claims made on the fast-fashion retailer’s website.

California claims Exxon created a public nuisance. Here’s what it means

Many recent public nuisance lawsuits have not been tested at trial, but some have ended in large settlements.

California’s lawsuit on Monday accusing Exxon of fueling global plastic waste pollution by misleading the public about the limitations of recycling is the latest in a line of recent cases based on a centuries-old legal theory known as public nuisance. Here is a look at how public nuisance claims work, how such claims have fared, and what it might mean for California’s effort.

Parents, here’s how to use Instagram’s new teen account settings

First, you’ll need your teen to set up family supervision on his or her account.

Worried about your teen’s Instagram use? Faced with growing pressure to do more to stop online harm, the social media platform has rolled out a major new update to protect young people and give parents more control.

Everything we know so far about Southwest’s new assigned-seating policy

Southwest revealed how its going to change its signature open-seating policy to let passengers pick their own seats.

In July, Southwest Airlines announced that it would be ditching its signature open-seating model for a more standard assigned-seating system—leading some to wonder whether Southwest is losing its most defining brand features. Today, the company shared more details about how the switch will impact ticket-buying, boarding, and the in-flight experience. 

Why the baby aisle is the newest hot spot on TikTok

It might just be the luckiest spot in the supermarket, as a new trend has social media users giving back to new moms.

Moms know that sometimes, parenting goes hand-in-hand with self-sacrifice. That was the thought that struck DeNaesha Gonazalez when she saw a cute silver purse abandoned in the baby aisle of Target—seemingly evidence that a mom, shopping for her children, had a choice to make.

NYC law on customer data sharing is unconstitutional, judge rules

New York City adopted the law in the summer of 2021, one of multiple measures to help its thousands of restaurants recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

A federal judge on Tuesday declared unconstitutional a New York City law requiring food delivery companies to share customer data with restaurants.

Buy now, pay later services to hit record this holiday shopping season

BNPL firms like Klarna, Afterpay, and Affirm are set to take market share away from debit cards and other forms of payment on purchases.

U.S. shoppers are expected to spend a record $18.5 billion using third-party buy now, pay later (BNPL) services for holiday purchases in the last quarter of the year, according to projections by data firm Adobe Analytics released on Wednesday.

Trump plans to take other countries’ manufacturing jobs, factories if elected

The Republican presidential candidate said a vote for him would result in a ‘mass exodus’ of manufacturing from U.S. allies South Korea and Germany as well as rival China.

Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would seek to “take” manufacturing jobs from foreign countries, including U.S. allies, if he wins the Novrmber 5 election, by offering incentives to encourage companies to relocate to the United States.