A federal judge has dismissed former President Trump's $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN, in which he accused the network of associating him with Hitler by describing his false 2020 election claims as "the big lie."
Driving the news: The former president's lawyers said when they filed the suit in October that this term was associated with Nazi propaganda that was used in the persecution of Jewish people, but the Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal ruled this was not defamatory.
Destination weddings are booming, forcing guests to factor in travel costs before they RSVP.
By the numbers: The global destination wedding market grew from $21.31 billion in 2022 to $28.31 billion in 2023 — and it's expected to grow to $78.89 billion in 2027, according to data from the Destination Wedding Global Market Report 2023.
With the Israeli government this week passing the first in a series of significant changes to its judicial system, the country’s startups and investors are bracing themselves for turbulence.
Why it matters: Israel may have less than a quarter of California’s population, but its tech industry has been punching above its weight for a long time.
The U.S. economy continues on its glide path to the elusive "soft landing," even in the face of 11 rate hikes and counting. That's in large part because we spent the 15 years before the rate hikes steadily deleveraging and ensuring that debtors couldn't easily fall victim to a credit crunch.
Why it matters: Rate hikes in many other countries, especially the UK, hurt most of the population very rapidly, thanks to their high homeownership rate and how short-term their mortgages are.
Discrimination based on body size is common and persistent in American workplaces — but it's largely left out of diversity and inclusion training, and overlooked in employment law.
Why it matters: There's an economic cost to not being thin.
