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CNBC.com’s MacKenzie Sigalos brings you the day’s top business news headlines. Today was a historic day on Wall Street — the Dow crossed 30,000 for the first time on record. CNBC.com’s Pippa Stevens explains what Dow points are, why they’re important, and why 30,000 is such a significant milestone. Plus, CNBC Wealth Editor Robert Frank breaks down how Tesla’s...

Snap just announced the launch of Spotlight, a Snapchat feature that functions like TikTok and Instagram Reels.

Twitter on Tuesday launched Fleets, its competitor to Snapchat and Instagram’s stories features, and announced a new audio feature.

In the last year, a number of apps, including Parler, TikTok, and OnlyFans, have started to gain ground in the social media landscape.

Snap’s stock was up as much as 7% on Thursday following a report highlighting the company’s augmented reality and e-commerce strategy.

LX News speaks with Bread for the World’s Heather Taylor about the state of food insecurity and poverty in the U.S., which have been rising as congressional negotiations over another stimulus package continue to drag on without action.

Amid one of the worst downturns in U.S. history, the number of Americans who are struggling to pay for food has soared. Around 20% of adults living with children said they couldn’t afford to adequately feed their families over the last seven days, and nearly 26 million adults said people in their households are not eating enough because of a...

With the number of families receiving food assistance on the rise, Massachusetts will enter a pilot program that allows SNAP recipients to purchase groceries online using their benefits. The state announced Thursday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved its application to join the federal pilot. It provides recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as...

A rapidly increasing number of Massachusetts residents are asking the government to help pay for their groceries, but recipients need to shop inside stores because EBT cards can’t be used for online purchases

EBT cards can’t be used to buy food online, something Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern is trying to change as coronavirus keeps people indoors.

New York Attorney General Letitia James and District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine are co-leading a lawsuit filed Thursday to stop the Trump Administration from eliminating food assistance for nearly 700,000 Americans, James’ office said.   The lawsuit, which was joined by 13 attorney generals — including those for New Jersey and Connecticut — as well as New York…

Thirty-two states and the District of Columbia are scrambling to address a Trump administration policy change that will keep nearly 700,000 of their poorest residents from accessing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly called food stamps. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced last month that in an effort “to restore the dignity of work,” the Trump administration would limit states...

Imagine losing the diamonds from your engagement ring and then finding out it won’t be covered by your insurance as you expected it to be.

As a nor’easter careens towards southern New England, communities along the coast are preparing for its wrath.

A tree fell down onto a car in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood as storms passed through New England.

A string of vandalism at a handful of businesses overnight in Maynard, Massachusetts, have police searching for a suspect. Police responded to the McDonald’s on Main Street just before 5 a.m. Monday where authorities say several windows had been broken by a BB or pellet gun. The restaurant had also been broken into and the someone had made a mess...

Amazon Go stores, which let customers buy items without waiting in checkout lines, will start accepting cash, amid intensifying criticism that the company is discriminating against the unbanked. In an internal all-hands meeting last month, Steve Kessel, Amazon’s senior vice president of physical stores, told employees that the company plans “additional payment mechanisms” at its Go stores. Kessel was responding...

People who receive food stamps are at risk of losing federal assistance as the government shutdown has passed the one-month mark.

Saturday Night: Light snow and flurries turn to a period of heavy snow toward midnight. Switch to ice and rain by morning. Temps steady in the 20s to low 30s. East/northeast wind. Generally 3-6” of snow. Sunday: A mess! Ice and periods of heavy rain. Temps rise to the 20s northwest, 30s in Boston, 50s on Cape Cod. Gusty winds...

Wall Street started 2018 strong, buoyed by a growing economy and corporate profits. It isn’t ending that way. U.S. stocks climbed to new highs early, shook off a sudden, steep drop by spring and rode a wave of tax cut-juiced corporate earnings growth to another all-time high by September. Then the jitters set in. Investors grew worried that the testy...