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A Cracker Barrel sign featuring the old logo is seen outside of a restaurant on August 21, 2025 in Homestead, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesShares of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store rose roughly 7% Wednesday after the restaurant chain said it would scrap its new logo and return to the original one, amid mounting criticism from social media users and even President Donald Trump.The stock moves on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning have brought Cracker Barrel shares close to restoring their original losses from when the new logo was first announced last week.”We thank our guests for sharing your…

AIC Hotel Group bolstered its meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) department team with seven new sales staff to expand its reach in the US and Canada markets.The new sales executive will report to Luke Majewski, associate vice president of meetings, incentive groups and corporate travel program, and who previously served as AIC’s regional director of business development. “Having grown within the company, I’ve witnessed firsthand the passion and dedication that defines our approach to meetings and incentives,” Majewski said.“I look forward to finding innovative ways to elevate our offerings and set new standards within the industry as we embrace…

Library e-book and audiobook app Libby is adding AI, much to the disappointment of some readers and librarians, who would prefer not to have AI inserted into their favorite apps. The new feature, “Inspire Me,” allows users to get book recommendations by using prompts or from their previously saved titles in Libby. To use the feature, readers tap on the “Inspire Me” options on Libby’s home page, where they can ask for fiction or nonfiction, then narrow down the suggestions by other factors, like age range, type of content, and more. For instance, you might tap on suggestions like “spine-tingling”…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — At least five children were injured in a shooting Wednesday during the first week of classes at a Minneapolis Catholic school, authorities and a hospital said.Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called the violence “horrific.”The Minneapolis city government said the shooter had been “contained” after the gunfire at Annunciation Catholic School and there was no longer any “active threat” to residents.Walz said on social media that he had been briefed on the shooting.“I’m praying for our kids and teachers whose first week of school was marred by this horrific act of violence,” Walz wrote on X.Children’s Minnesota, a pediatric…

EVA Air and Southwest Airlines have entered a new interline agreement effective immediately, the carriers announced on Tuesday.The partnership will connect EVA Air passengers in four key cities, including Los Angeles (LAX), San Francisco (SFO), Seattle (SEA) and Chicago (ORD), with other cities across the U.S. via Southwest’s expanding network. Allowing for more seamless travel between Asia and North America, the agreement means that passengers can now book a single itinerary—including flights operated by both carriers—with coordinated ticketing and through-checked baggage service to their final destination.What’s more, passengers will receive boarding passes for all segments of their journey at the…

The Trump administration made an unprecedented, and confusing, move last week when it announced plans to convert money Intel was supposed to receive through Joe Biden-era government grant programs into a 10% equity stake.While it remains unclear if converting those government grants into equity is even possible — that’s up for debate — it’s even less obvious how this move will solve Intel’s biggest problem, its waffling foundry business. Even Intel is unconvinced. Intel Foundry, which manufactures custom semiconductors for outside customers, has not been fruitful for the company. The business division lost out on potential big contracts, like one with…

BUÑOL, Spain (AP) — Thousands of people from around the world seeking a uniquely messy thrill spent one wild hour flinging bushels of overripe tomatoes at each other during Spain’s “Tomatina” celebration Wednesday.The mother of all food fights painted a packed central street in the eastern town of Buñol deep red as revelers squished, smashed and hurled 120 tons of the overripe fruit. Tarps covered building fronts as an estimated 20,000 people let loose amid screams and laughter. Revelers throw tomatoes at each other during the annual “Tomatina” tomato fight fiesta, in the village of Bunol near Valencia, Spain, Wednesday,…

Kohl’s shares climbed more than 20% on Wednesday after the retailer topped Wall Street’s fiscal second-quarter earnings and revenue expectations, even as its sales declined and it looks for a new CEO.The Wisconsin-based department store narrowed its full-year sales guidance to reflect the higher part of its previous range. It said it now expects net sales to decline by between 5% and 6%. It had previously anticipated sales would fall 5% to 7%.It also revised its full-year earnings per share guidance. Kohl’s said it expects earnings to be in the range of 50 cents to 80 cents per share adjusted.…

Anthropic has settled a class action lawsuit with a group of fiction and nonfiction authors, as announced in a filing on Tuesday with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Anthropic had won a partial victory in a lower court ruling and was in the process of appealing that ruling. No details of the settlement were made public, and Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Called Bartz v. Anthropic, the case deals with Anthropic’s use of books as training material for its large language models. The court had ruled that Anthropic’s use of the books qualified as…

Abercrombie & Fitch sales growth slowed again in its fiscal second quarter as the apparel company struggles to top the surge it enjoyed last fiscal year.During the quarter, sales at the namesake Abercrombie brand fell 5% while comparable sales dropped 11%. But the success of teen-focused Hollister brand helped to salvage the quarter. Overall, Abercrombie & Fitch sales climbed 7%, led by 19% growth at Hollister – the brand’s best-ever second-quarter net sales growth, the company said. Comparable sales across the business rose 3%, led by Hollister, which also saw comparable sales grow 19%.Abercrombie narrowly beat Wall Street expectations on the top…