SKEGNESS, England – Aug. 30, 2022: Salt’s fish and chip shop in Skegness, Lincolnshire. Manager Liam Parker told CNBC the family business is looking to cut costs through the winter as soaring energy and fish prices weigh on small businesses. Elliot Smith/CNBC SKEGNESS, England — Traditional British fish and chip …

Shoppers buy groceries at a wet market as Chengdu imposes a lockdown to curb a new Covid-19 outbreak on Sept. 1, 2022. Chen Yusheng | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — Nomura has cut its China GDP forecast again due to new Covid lockdowns. Several cities including the …

Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.) speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine the federal response to Covid-19 and new emerging variants on January 11, 2022 at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Greg Nash | AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON — Newly unsealed FBI documents paint …

When Ishpal and Serina Bajaj approached a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to open a vegan ice cream store, they were met with disapproval.  “They pretty much laughed, like nobody’s going to eat plant-based ice cream,” said Ishpal. “I think the whole perception of it was that plant-based [desserts] …

People walk by a Covid-19 testing site at Times Square on May 12, 2022 in New York City. Liao Pan | China News Service | Getty Images People who recently caught Covid can wait a few months to get a new omicron booster, White House Covid response coordinator Dr. Ashish …

An aerial view shows Isar nuclear power plant, which includes the Isar 2 reactor, on August 14, 2022 in Essenbach, Germany. Isar 2 is one of the last three still operating nuclear power plants in Germany and all three were scheduled to shut down by the end of this year. …

FedEx trucks at Indianapolis International Airport in Indianapolis, Indiana. Kaiti Sullivan | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday Tuesday: Illumina — Shares of the biotech company rose 2.52% after Illumina said it plans to appeal a decision by the European Commission prohibiting the …

A Social Security Administration office in Sebring, Florida. Jeff Greenberg | Universal Images Group | Getty Images The agency’s service difficulties date back to before the pandemic, said Maria Freese, senior legislative representative at the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. “The Social Security Administration has been underfunded, …

Justin Bieber has been forced to suspend the rest of his world tour after suffering a health setback. The 28-year-old pop star announced in a Tuesday post on his Instagram story that he has dealt with exhaustion while trying to get back on tour, and that the effort “took a …

The D’Amelio family has built one of the most followed and lucrative social media empires, with sisters Charli and Dixie being the highest-paid earners on the short-form video platform TikTok.  The family’s next venture is aiming to leverage that knowledge of social media to create new brands for the creator …