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Southwest is getting rid of its most recognizable perk

Months after ditching its open seating policy, Southwest Airlines is ending its most recognizable perks: Free checked baggage.

Sam Bankman-Fried describes his relationship with Diddy in jail

Sam Bankman-Fried, the convicted crypto fraudster who is serving 25 years in prison, is breaking his silence about his life behind bars in a new interview with Tucker Carlson.

Skype is shutting down after two decades

Microsoft is shutting down Skype, the internet-based phone and video service that was once the dominant way of staying connected in the mid 2000s.

McDonald’s was having a rough 2024. An E. coli outbreak made it worse

Visits to McDonald’s plunged because of an E. coli outbreak last fall — and so did its profits.

Fox is streaming the Super Bowl for free

The Super Bowl has always been free to watch with an antenna, but for the first time, it’s streaming for free too.

Capital One accused of ‘cheating millions of customers’ out of interest rate payments

Capital One is being sued by the US government’s consumer watchdog agency for “cheating millions of consumers” and not paying more than $2 billion in interest to holders of its high-interest savings accounts.

Starbucks ends its ‘open-door’ policies

Starbucks doesn’t want to be America’s public bathroom anymore. Starbucks is scrapping a policy that had let anyone hang out at its cafes or use the restrooms without making a purchase. The new rules are part of a larger effort to improve Starbucks’ cafe experience and deter homeless people and non-paying customers who have come to use Starbucks solely for shelter and bathroom access – but they reverse a policy that was put in place after one of the company’s biggest-ever PR disasters.