When I met my husband at a work conference in 2013, it was love at first sight. That chance meeting eventually led me to call the beautiful twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago home. At the time, I was building my career in Atlanta as a media consultant working with NFL and NBA players. I…
A major teachers’ union is calling for its members to skip Target when buying back-to-school supplies, the latest twist in a series of boycotts that have targeted the big-box retailer as its turnaround shows signs of life, CNBC has learned. The AFT, or American Federation of Teachers, passed a resolution Thursday that calls on its 1.8…
President Donald Trump speaks during the House Republican Party member retreat at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Jan. 6, 2026. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s renewed focus on housing affordability has found a clear villain: institutional investors that own large swaths of single-family homes in fast-growing Sun Belt cities, where…
A home is shown for sale in The Heights in Houston, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. Kirk Sides | Houston Chronicle | Getty Images Home prices have finally come down compared with last year, though just fractionally, according to daily reads from Parcl Labs, which looks at high-frequency listing data on single-family homes, condos and townhomes,…
Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic said Wednesday he will be leaving his position when his term expires in February. Bostic has been in his current role since June 2017 and is the first Black and openly gay regional president. His term, which also was marked by issues relating to personal investments he made, runs…
A Republic Airways plane takes off near the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Arlington, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images Airlines rushed to provide travelers updates after the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that it would reduce flights across 40…
Detainees board a bus, during a raid by federal agents where about 300 South Koreans were among 475 people arrested at the site of a $4.3 billion project by Hyundai Motor and LG Energy Solution to build batteries for electric cars in Ellabell, Georgia, U.S. September 4, 2025 in a still image taken from a…
A sign for the CDC sits outside of their facility at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Roybal campus in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., May 30, 2025. Megan Varner | Reuters The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told staff it expects them to return to offices by Sept. 15, roughly five weeks after a…
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is, once again, the busiest airport in the world. The airport, which is Delta Air Lines’ largest hub, processed more than 108 million passengers in 2024, according to a report published today by Airports Council International World. However, that’s still some 2% fewer passengers than the airport processed in 2019. The…
