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Walmart, Best Buy, Target, Amazon Announce Black Friday Deals
In three weeks, thousands of Americans will hit stores to get the best deals as part of their holiday shopping. Stores across the U.S. are already getting ready for the season by announcing their Black Friday deals. Here are some options that may catch your eye.
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Black Friday Hours: Here's a List of When Retailers Will Be Open
Although some retailers have already started marking down items and cueing the holiday music, the season will kick off in earnest this week. Retailers are preparing for crowds of shoppers as the holidays approach, with retail sales expected to grow between 3.8% and 4.2% this year to between $727.9 billion and $730.7 billion, according to the National Retail Federation. For...
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Holiday Shopping Started in July This Year, Thanks to Amazon
If someone asked you when the holiday shopping season starts, you’d likely point to Black Friday, when flocks of people swarm stores after a hearty turkey dinner to pick through the hottest deals. But for more people in 2019, holiday shopping started in July. Why? Amazon. Amazon’s annual Prime Day extravaganza has “become a real part of the changing holiday...
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Samsung's Folding Phone Hits the US
Samsung’s folding phone is finally hitting the U.S. Samsung will start selling the Galaxy Fold, a phone with a screen that folds together like a book, on Friday. There will be an AT&T version as well as an unlocked version sold at Best Buy and Samsung stores. The South Korean tech giant had put the Galaxy Fold’s launch on hold...
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‘China Is Not Paying for It': Trump Tariff Hike Hits Everyone From Beer Brewers to Book Publishers
They brew beer, make musical instruments, publish children’s books and design headphones. Their industries are diverse, but they all have something in common: They represent American small and medium-sized businesses that rely on China either for production or essential equipment. And they are dreading President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs in a trade war that reached new intensity on...
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Elderly Woman Dies After Delivery Man Beat Her, Doused Her With Chemical in Boca Raton Home: Cops
An elderly woman has died after police say a delivery man from Hialeah badly beat her in her Boca Raton home before dousing her with a liquid chemical.
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Sears Pins Future on Small Stores Selling Appliances, Mattresses
Like many suburban shopping areas, Overland Park, Kansas, has a Whole Foods grocery store and a Cheesecake Factory. Now, it’s among the first to have a Sears Home & Life store. For five decades, from 1967 to 2017, Sears had presence in the booming town, which is also home to Sprint ‘s headquarters.
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‘Absolute Disgrace': Teen Gets Up to 4 Years in Prison for NYPD Cop Dragging Incident
A teenager accused of dragging an NYPD police officer while driving a stolen car has been sentenced to 1 1/3 to 4 years in prison.
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Teen Gets Up to 4 Years for NYPD Cop Dragging
Justin Murrell was sentenced after being found guilty of assault for the June 2017 incident that left Officer Dalsh Veve with severe injuries.
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Last-Minute Shoppers Hit the Malls
Shoppers across the tri-state area scramble to buy last-minute gifts in time for Christmas Day. Katherine Creag reports.
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Teen Driver Convicted of Assault in Dragging of NYPD Cop
A teenager accused of critically injuring an NYPD police officer by dragging him in a stolen car has been convicted of assault.
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Happening Today: G-20 Summit, Putin, Ebola, Measles, Hugh Jackman, Harvey Weinstein
Here’s what to know for Friday, Nov. 30.
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Latest Forecast From Storm Team 4
The latest forecast from Storm Team 4.
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Best Buy, Supermarket Shoppers May Have Been Exposed to Measles, NY Health Officials Say
Health officials are warning of new locations where shoppers may have been exposed to measles in New York’s Rockland County, which has seen nearly 100 confirmed cases of the virus amid an outbreak that has yet to be contained.
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Neiman Marcus Releases 2018 Fantasy Gift Guide
Neiman Marcus has released the 92nd edition of its Christmas Book and Fantasy Gifts. The 2018 edition features a solar yacht, a unique tennis experience and more.
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Why Sales Tax Is More Likely for Online Gifts This Holiday Shopping Season
Shoppers heading online to purchase holiday gifts will find they’re being charged sales tax at some websites where they weren’t before. The reason: the Supreme Court. A June ruling gave states the go-ahead to require more companies to collect sales tax on online purchases. Now, more than two dozen have moved to take advantage of the ruling, many ahead of...
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Thanksgiving Day Deals Could Be Stealing Black Friday's Thunder
Shoppers pulled out their phones and shopped on Thanksgiving Day to spend more than they ever have before on Turkey Day, potentially stealing some of Black Friday’s thunder. Sales online Thanksgiving Day totaled $3.7 billion, up 28 percent from a year ago, Adobe Analytics said in a report. That makes Thursday the fastest-growing day for e-commerce sales in history, added...
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In Era of Online Retail, Black Friday Still Lures Shoppers to Stores
It would have been easy to turn on their computers at home over plates of leftover turkey and take advantage of the Black Friday deals most retailers now offer online. But across the country, thousands of shoppers woke up before dawn the day after Thanksgiving and brought their mobile devices with them to take part in this most famous ritual...
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Measles Alert: Push to Stop Spread With Vaccinations
In Rockland County more than 300 people showed up to get vaccinated for measles at a clinic after a total of 17 cases of the disease were confirmed in Brooklyn and Rockland County. Tracie Strahan reports.
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Sears Files for Chapter 11 Amid Plunging Sales, Massive Debt
Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, with plans to shutter 142 unprofitable stores in the hopes that it can stay in business. The question now is whether a smaller version of the company that once towered over the American retail landscape can be viable. Sears, which started as a mail order catalog in the 1880s, has been on...