December 20, 2024

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Last updated December 20 at 5:15 PM ET

Chili’s is America’s unlikeliest restaurant comeback story

Chili’s, the 49-year casual dining chain that American diners forgot and Wall Street turned its back on, has made a stunning comeback. It’s America’s hottest restaurant chain, a sentence that hasn’t been uttered since NYSNC sang its baby back ribs jingle in a late 1990s commercial.
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Party City is going out of business

Party City is closing down all of its stores, ending nearly 40 years in business, CNN has learned.
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Big Lots will soon start ‘going out of business’ sales at its remaining locations

Big Lots is preparing to close its remaining 963 locations after a sale to save the bankrupt retailer fell through.
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‘Packages and profits over people’: What it’s like to be an Amazon driver and why some are on strike

Thousands of Amazon workers went on strike on Thursday, portending to disrupt holiday deliveries just a week before Christmas and the start of Hanukkah.
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‘We are hanging on by a thread’: Business owner responds to shutdown threat

North Carolina restaurant owner Katie Button discusses what the disaster aid in the government funding bill means for hard-hit areas after Hurricane Helene. The US is just hours away from a government shutdown unless a funding plan is passed to avoid it. The House failed Thursday to pass a new Donald Trump-backed GOP proposal to fund the government into March, intensifying the threat of a shutdown ahead of the midnight deadline.
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A year-end countdown as Mega Millions Jackpot grows to nearly $1 billion

While shoppers rush to find the perfect holiday gift, the real treasure might just be hidden in one lucky lottery ticket. Tonight’s Mega Millions drawing could yield a jackpot nearing $1 billion,
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