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By Brian Stelter, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. The distance between Trump America’s perception of January 6 and the rest of America’s understanding of the attack is growing so wide, it cannot be bridged. To see what I

By Pete Muntean, CNN Southwest Airlines says it is launching an internal investigation after a report that one of its pilots used anti-Biden slang over a plane’s public address system during a flight. “Southwest does not condone Employees sharing their personal political opinions while on the job,” the airline said in a Sunday statement. “Southwest

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business CNN media analyst Bill Carter compared Rupert Murdoch to a “robber baron” on “Reliable Sources” Sunday, referencing his disruptive role in the media as threats to American democracy become more mainstream. “He basically came in like the guys in the 19th century,” Carter said, “and in the pursuit of wealth

By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Fire alarms, teasing Tom Brady and flipping the double bird on live television. These are just some of the viral moments from “Monday Night Football with Peyton & Eli.” Also known as the “Manning Cast” — as in the brothers and former NFL quarterbacks — it feels more like a

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business As world leaders gather in Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit on Sunday, there are plenty of reasons for companies and investors to watch closely. Here’s just one: Experts are warning that the climate crisis could trigger the next financial meltdown. “The climate crisis is slow in the making, but

By Jessie Yeung and Swati Gupta, CNN Anish Yadav was sleeping in his home, a fragile hut made of wood and plastic, when the water rushed in. A concrete retaining wall that had previously held back monsoon floodwaters had collapsed, sending a deluge through Yadav’s slum in Malad, a northern suburb in India’s financial hub

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business GameStop chief operating officer Jenna Owens is leaving the company seven months after joining it, the company said in a regulatory filing. The Texas-based company did not specify why Owens was leaving. The filing said both parties entered a separation agreement which went into effect on October 25. Owens could

By Ramishah Maruf and Pete Muntean, CNN Business American Airlines canceled hundreds of flights during the weekend, citing bad weather and staffing shortages, the company announced in a statement. Two days of severe winds in Dallas-Fort Worth, its largest hub, sharply reduced its arrival capacity, the company said. Flights were also affected at its Charlotte,

Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Business John Deere and the United Auto Workers Union have reached a new tentative agreement, more than two weeks after 10,000 John Deere workers went on strike, both parties announced Saturday. “Our UAW John Deere national bargaining team went back to our local members after the previous tentative agreement and canvassed the

by Oliver Darcy, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Fox News is not officially commenting on the record, but it seems the right-wing talk network is quietly trying to distance itself from Tucker Carlson’s 1/6 trutherism. That’s the takeaway

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The people who made their fortunes in the oil capital of Europe need a new plan. For decades, Aberdeen, a port city on Scotland’s northeast coast, has served as the commercial gateway to the North Sea, where powerful companies have navigated deep and dangerous waters to extract tens of billions

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Amazon’s rise has been relentless for more than a decade, with regulators and rivals alike failing to slow it. But now Amazon has taken a hit from a pair of immovable forces: snarled supply chains and worker shortages. The company’s third-quarter earnings and sales fell well short of Wall Street’s

Walé Azeez, CNN Business The United Kingdom is pushing ahead with legislation that will force more than 1,300 of its largest companies to disclose climate risks. Announcing the move ahead of the COP26 climate talks that start in Glasgow on Sunday, the UK government said it plans to be the first major economy to require

By Matt Egan, CNN Business Oil prices are unlikely to stay elevated for long, Chevron’s chief financial officer told CNN. “This feels more cyclical than structural,” Pierre Breber, the CFO of Chevron, the No. 2 US oil company, said in a phone interview. “We view these prices as above mid-cycle and above what our price

By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Profits soared at the nation’s two largest oil companies, as ExxonMobil and Chevron both benefited from the recent run-up in oil prices. ExxonMobil, America’s largest oil company, posted net income of $6.8 billion, swinging to a profit after a $680 million loss a year ago. Oil prices got crushed in

By Laura He, CNN Business For the second time this month, China’s most indebted developer Evergrande has reportedly managed to avoid default at the last minute. The debt-stricken firm paid interest on a dollar-denominated bond that was due in late September, just as a 30-day grace period expired, according to the New York Times and

By Marshall Cohen A January 6 rioter who downplayed the insurrection in a Fox News interview one day after she was sentenced to probation for storming the Capitol was “played by Laura Ingraham” and manipulated into whitewashing the attack, her lawyer said Thursday. Anna Morgan-Lloyd received national attention in June for becoming the first Capitol

By Amir Vera, CNN News of Facebook’s new company name, Meta, quickly attracted the scorn of the internet. “The only meta we acknowledge,” tweeted writer Mitchell Clark, who posted a picture of former NBA player Meta World Peace (formerly known as Ron Artest). “‘Meta’ is short for ‘I meta girl in high school who I