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Here’s my first dilemma of the day: the new Luckin Coffee near my office in Hong Kong wants me to download their app for a $2 drink. Without it, it’s $3.75.Fine. I register, get a WhatsApp code and scroll through their menu: fruity Americanos, a seasonal kale tea and the coconut milk latte — a bestseller with five sweetness levels.The menus are something else. This coconut comes from Luckin’s own grove in Indonesia, it says, blessed by volcanic ash and ocean nutrients. The milk is cold-pressed within four hours of cracking the fruit open. Sure, Luckin. I click iced, no…

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new video loaded: In L.A.’s Little Tokyo, Protests Draw Sympathy and FrustrationtranscriptBacktranscriptIn L.A.’s Little Tokyo, Protests Draw Sympathy and FrustrationBusiness owners and locals in Little Tokyo say they are conflicted: frustrated as they scrub graffiti and clean up after looting, but also holding a deep sense of solidarity with anti-immigration raid protesters and their cause.The last three days since Friday, since the demonstrations started, have been progressively getting a little bit more crazier and a little bit wilder. “ICE is not welcome here.” Friday and Saturday, we noticed that most of the crowd was being kept just north of us,…

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Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., left, and Emmanuel Macron, France’s president at the 2025 VivaTech conference in Paris, France, on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesNvidia boss Jensen Huang has been on a tour of Europe this week, bringing excitement and intrigue to everywhere he visited.His message was clear — Nvidia is the company that can help Europe build its artificial intelligence infrastructure so the region can take control of its own destiny with the transformative technology.I’ve been in London and Paris this week following Huang around as he met…

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Dying without a will can leave a knotty financial mess for your loved ones to unravel. But only one in four Americans has a valid will, according to a new survey from Western & Southern Life Insurance.Barely half of respondents (53%) reported being confident that they understood their spouses’ wishes. Even fewer (48%) could say the same about their parents.Nearly a third of those surveyed (30%) admitted they’ve never discussed end-of-life financial plans with their family members.Protect your loved ones with one of these top online will-makersOffers in this section are from affiliate partners and selected based on a combination…

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Workers are facing a tough moment in the labor market.Employee confidence levels hit a low of 44.1% in May, according to a new report by Glassdoor, which measures the share of workers with a positive six-month business outlook. They cite reasons like economic uncertainty given potential tariffs and layoffs. Mentions of layoffs on the site surged 9%.May job cuts by U.S.-based employers were up 47% from the same month the year before, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Employers cut 93,816 jobs in May 2025 versus 63,816 in May 2024. The U.S. also added 139,000 jobs in May, slightly…

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Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Markets: Wall Street moved lower Friday afternoon as tensions in the Middle East escalate following Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear infrastructure. Iranian state TV said that it has suspended nuclear weapons negotiations with the U.S. — the two sides had been set to talk on Sunday. Not long afterward, as headlines around Iranian missile attacks in Israel surfaced, losses in the stock market picked up steam. The Dow Jones Industrial Average…

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