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by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 1:50 PM ET, Thu November 13, 2025 Executive Chairman of Sandals Resorts, Adam Stewart, CD, provided an update on the status of Jamaican tourism and the brand’s resorts following the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa during an exclusive travel advisor town hall webinar on November 13. Over 2,900 advisors and travel industry professionals in attendance.  “Thank you for always loving Jamaica the way you have,” Stewart told advisors. “Thank you for loving Sandals and Beaches Resorts. We know you have other products you can sell; we thank you for focusing on our product. We will stand by…

Firefighters performing a safety drill at one of The Boring Company’s construction sites in Las Vegas received burns from chemicals used in the tunnel excavation process, according to a new report from Fortune. Those Clark County firefighters weren’t previously made aware of the potential hazard but were permanently scarred, the report states. Employees working on The Boring Company’s tunnels have also received similar chemical burns. The Boring Company has been digging tunnels in Las Vegas for a few years in an attempt to connect the entire city with a subterranean network that uses Teslas to shuttle people. It’s the first…

WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans are injecting themselves with unapproved chemicals that are pitched as ways to build muscle, rejuvenate skin and extend life, the latest example of the nation’s fascination with alternative therapies and wellness hacks.Behind the trend is the surging popularity of GLP-1 weight loss medications, a class of so-called peptides approved to help users quickly shed pounds.But the peptides being promoted by influencers, celebrities and wellness gurus are different: Many have never been approved for human use and much of their purported evidence comes from studies in rats and other animals. Several peptides, such as BPC-157 and…

D.R. Horton signage stands in front of homes under construction at the Eastridge Woods development in Cottage Grove, Minnesota.Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play newsletter with Diana Olick. Property Play covers new and evolving opportunities for the real estate investor, from individuals to venture capitalists, private equity funds, family offices, institutional investors and large public companies. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.D.R. Horton, the nation’s largest homebuilder, is tapping an artificial intelligence tool from Portland, Oregon-based startup Prophetic to build more homes and address the country’s…

TikTok announced on Thursday that it’s launching “bulletin board,” a new feature that lets brands and creators share public, one-to-many messages to their followers. Bulletin board is essentially TikTok’s own version of Instagram’s broadcast channels feature that launched in 2023. Just like with broadcast channels on Instagram, only the creator of a bulletin board can post messages, and followers are limited to leaving emoji reactions. Bulletin boards support text, image, and video posts. The feature is rolling out to creators who are at least 18 years old and have 50,000 followers. The idea behind the feature is to make it easy…

Shoppers walk through Manhattan on Nov. 7, 2025, in New York City.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesHigh-income consumers are trading down, Gen Z is spending less, and low-income shoppers are still struggling, according to many consumer companies that shared their latest quarterly results in recent weeks.Those trends may not bode well for the big-box and mall retailers that have yet to report their earnings. That is, unless the strength of their brands — or high-income consumers who see their products as a good deal — help them transcend the gloomier consumer climate.While the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow tracker is projecting 4% U.S.…

Six Flags Entertainment is unveiling a robust array of holiday experiences beginning this month, including celebratory events, live entertainment, and, of course, rides, at its parks and four of its resorts.The launch date of festive activities differs from park to park. Canada’s Wonderland, for instance, will kick off its holiday experiences on Nov. 15, Knott’s Berry Farm on Nov. 21, Six Flags Fiesta Texas on Nov. 22 and Six Flags Magic Mountain on Nov. 27.Other parks participating in the holiday festivities include Six Flags Mexico, Six Flags Over Texas, Kings Island, Carowinds, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom and Hurricane Harbor Oaxtepec.…

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says federal government departments are not sufficiently patching to protect against an active hacking campaign targeting Cisco firewalls. In an updated advisory published Wednesday, CISA said that it was currently “tracking active exploitation” of two security flaws in Cisco’s Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software, which powers a range of enterprise-grade firewalls used by corporate giants and government agencies to protect their networks from malicious outsiders. CISA said the flaws have been abused by an “advanced” but as-yet-unnamed threat actor since September, which prompted the agency to issue its third emergency directive of the year, ordering agencies…

Google is updating NotebookLM, its AI note-taking and research assistant, with a new tool to help users simplify complex research, along with support for additional file types. The service is rolling out “Deep Research,” a tool that will automate and simplify complex online research. Google says the tool acts like a dedicated researcher, as it can synthesize a detailed report or recommend relevant articles, papers, or websites. Deep Research can take your question, create a research plan, and then browse websites on your behalf. After a few minutes, it will present you with a source-grounded report that you can add…

Meta is overhauling Facebook Marketplace with new collaborative tools, social features, an improved checkout experience, and Meta AI integrations, the company announced Thursday. Marketplace is getting a new “collections” feature that lets users create groups of listings and invite friends to join. Users can get started by saving a listing, starting a new collection, and then choosing whether to make it public or private. They can then add friends to their collection and share updates through Feed, Messenger, WhatsApp, and more. Meta’s also testing collaborative buying, which means users can invite a friend to join their chat with a seller.…