The Trump administration is cracking down on the sale of counterfeits online from platforms like Amazon, according to a new report released Friday by the Department of Homeland Security. Law enforcement officials will immediately start to identify cases where counterfeit goods are being sold online, according to the report, and will “pursue civil fines and other penalties against these entities.” Officials will notify the facilities of counterfeit goods and urge them to destroy or abandon any “i

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the new coronavirus an “emergency in China” this week but stopped short of declaring it of international concern. The virus continues to spread globally, however: French authorities reported Europe’s first confirmed cases on Friday evening. Senator John Barrasso, a former physician, said people in the United States with the virus may have been infected up to 14 days ago in China. The country will take further, more targeted measures, state television

The official United States Space Force Logo (L) looks very similar to the StarFleet Command United Federation of Planets logo. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s Space Force logo has boldly gone where “Star Trek” has gone before. The Space Force logo also resembles the symbol for the Air Force Space Command. The Space Force will don blue, Army sports black and the Air Force uses brown. Space Force would stand as a separate branch alongside the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.

In my 20 years of working as a luxury real estate broker, I’ve sold $6 billion in homes. To be sure, it involved a lot of hard work, but I especially credit my success to one secret: I’m brutally honest with my clients. If agents don’t tell their clients what mistakes they’re making, it can take much longer for a home to sell. Here are the five brutally honest things I’ve had to tell homeowners:1. Buyers weren’t interested, and I had to tell my client that the real value was closer to $9 million

Real-estate powerhouse Aaron Kirman believes in protecting his morning time. The star of CNBC’s “Listing Impossible” has a detailed and time-consuming routine that, even on the busiest days, he refuses to cut short. Kirman’s schedule changes so much that he rarely has a “typical day,” but the one constant he can count on is his triple soy cappuccino from Starbucks. His personal assistant hand delivers his coffee every morning between 7 and 7:30 a.m., which is when his day normally starts. Though

In a new series for Netflix, staffers for Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle brand Goop dove head-first into the increasingly popular practice of “wellness travel.” Instead, staffers flew eight hours to test out the healing properties of psychedelic mushrooms. The episode follows the staffers as they experience the after-effects of drinking a tea containing about 3 grams of psychedelic mushrooms, which are not chemically addictive. Viewers watch several staffers break down in tears at different points

Now, a new online tool may help you figure out exactly how much you need. It also shows how many households in those income and age groups are falling short and by how much. “The average family doesn’t have enough of a buffer,” said Fiona Greig, director of consumer research at the JPMorgan Chase Institute, which developed the tool. “Across the board, pretty much everyone has a gap between what they should have and what they do have.” And if those two things happen at the same time, a cash cushi

Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce.com speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 23, 2020. Adam Galasia | CNBCDAVOS, Switzerland – Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said it is “fair” for him to get some credit for President Donald Trump’s surprising support for an initiative geared toward battling climate change. There had been speculation at Davos that Trump’s support came at the urging Benioff, a trustee of the forum. When asked whether “it’s fair” to give him some credit for Trump

Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch leaves the hearing room after testifying in the House Select Intelligence Committee hearing on the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. A newly surfaced recording contains audio of President Donald Trump demanding that former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch be fired, ABC News reported Friday. A lawyer for Fruman did not respond to a request for comment, and Parnas’ lawyer, Joe Bondy, confirmed that the tape

Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., wants Tesla to rebrand and add safeguards to its cars’ Autopilot feature. Markey said his two recommendations come after media reports that show Tesla drivers abusing the Autopilot system. The first recommendation is a rebranding of the Autopilot feature to clarify that it is not fully autonomous, meaning the driver has to remain in control of the vehicle while Autopilot is turned on. According to Tesla’s website, “Current Autopilot features require active driver sup

Watch the moment a Texas building explodes, leaving at least two dead3 Hours AgoA warehouse exploded, damaging homes as far as a mile away around 4:30am in northwest Houston, Texas. The impact of the blast knocked down a home’s security camera that captured the moment. At least one person was injured, and another is missing. It’s not immediately clear what caused the early morning explosion in northwest Houston.

There’s a lot more lining up to support equities: BlackRock’s MooreKate Moore, BlackRock global allocation investment team head of thematic strategy, and Josh Brown, Ritholtz Wealth Management, joins ‘Fast Money Halftime Report’ to discuss the health of the stock market rally and whether it has room to run.

The Intel logo is displayed outside of the Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. With its 737 Max line already grounded longer than expected, issues at Boeing’s commercial airplanes unit continue to expand. American Express — Shares of the payments company rose more than 2% and hit a record on the back of stronger-than-forecast quarterly numbers. Broadcom, Skyworks — Broadcom rose 1.5% in midday trading after announcing a pair of su

The everybody-wants-to-buy-stocks trade keeps propelling Wall Street to record high after record high, but that cannot last forever, economist Mohamed El-Erian warned Friday. “We are living in this wonderful world of liquidity,” the Allianz chief economic advisor said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” The 30-year bond yield was around 2.16%. Low bond yields, which move inversely to prices, makes equities more attractive. “I think that you should be increasingly more defensively oriented while keeping a cl

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGoogle on Friday responded to criticism that recent changes to its search results have blurred the lines between ads and regular results, saying it will be experimenting with different designs. As a part of a mid-January redesign to desktop search results, the company made paid links look more like unpaid results. Ad search results have gone through several design changes over the years; for example, Google previously used yellow and green “Ad” boxes t

First, the fact that these tax cuts haven’t just boosted the economy but have also boosted tax revenues needs to be repeated over and over. Because the Democrats and other critics are going to increasingly point to the rising budget deficits and will surely blame the Trump tax cuts for them. This comes despite the overwhelming doomsday predictions by Trump’s opponents that the 2017 Trump tax cut would reduce those revenues. The Trump team needs to appeal to the simple logic that if tax revenues

Researchers examined data that was collected over nine years and measured implicit and explicit biases. The results suggest that while unconscious bias against race and sexual orientation has decreased over time, implicit bias against high-weight people have increased. Despite studies showing that these negative attitudes are having an impact on high-weigh people in the workplace, discrimination against them is still legal in 49 states. Michigan is the only state that has passed legislation that

“I want to focus in here on energy exploration … the XOP ETF has been clearly in a downtrend. There is one energy stock that Gordon would consider as having upside potential, though. “One name that I do like in the energy space — it’s not a member of the XOP, it’s an infrastructure play — is Kinder Morgan,” he said. John Petrides, portfolio manager at Tocqueville Asset Management, takes the opposite side on the energy space – he said there could still be opportunity here after its severe downtur

Depending on their verdict, Supreme Court justices could also diminish states’ power to investigate and punish financial wrongdoing. Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2010 when it passed the Dodd-Frank financial-reform law, giving it a mission to protect Americans from unfair, deceptive and abusive financial practices. Christopher Peterson director of financial services and senior fellow at the Consumer Federation of AmericaThe plaintiff in the Supreme Court case — Sei

States that supported President Donald Trump in the 2016 election are doing better economically these days than those that went for his opponent. Five of the seven fastest-growing states in the U.S. during 2019 went red in the last presidential contest, according to a trend tracked by Yelp that could come into play as a bevy of Democratic hopefuls look to unseat the Republican incumbent in a race that will heat up soon. An index that the online review site uses to track growth showed that the ga