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Bitcoin smashed through $45,000 on New Year's Day for the first time since April 2022, as the world’s largest cryptocurrency continues its recent run after a spectacular 2023.

New York state's minimum wage increases went into effect at the stroke of midnight, raising pay across the state, with special rates implemented in New York City.

A teenager was supposed to fly from Tampa, Florida to Cleveland, Ohio over holiday break. Instead, the boy ended up in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the airline apologized.

Cryptocurrency has increased in popularity, which has led to more frequent— and sophisticated — schemes in recent years as scammers look to take advantage of investors.

Beginning in 2024, California is offering free health insurance to more than 700,000 migrants living illegally in the state as it faces a $68 billion deficit.

Toyota bought a majority share in Daihatsu in 1967 and expanded that to a controlling interest in 1998 after the company failed to make an impact in the North American market.

The United States' national debt is quickly approaching $34 trillion, and a majority of the nation's voters say the economy is in bad shape.

A rare stuffed animal is on the auction market over a century after being manufactured. A Steiff Begging Bonzo Dog, one of 115 made, is for sale this new year.

Spirit Airlines said it had fired a gate agent who was found in an internal investigation to have put a 6-year-old unaccompanied minor on the wrong plane last week.

Prosecutors have decided that the public interest in speedy resolution of Sam Bankman-Fried's criminal proceedings outweighs the benefits of putting the disgraced crytpo mogul through a second trial.

Three employees at the Academy Sports + Outdoors store in Louisiana were terminated after responding to a shoplifter who stole a pistol.

A Palestinian restaurant chain in New York City is receiving death threats for being “openly genocidal," but its owner insists the controversial messaging is not a call to eliminate Israel.

A civil rights leader from North Carolina was told he could not use his own chair during a showing of "The Color Purple," despite having a disability.