Business

M&M's pause of its spokescandies comes after a right-wing backlash to changes in the Green and Brown M&Ms and the addition of the Purple M&M.

M&M's replaces its spokescandies with Maya Rudolph after Tucker Carlson's rants

12:14pm January 24, 2023

The Fox News host attacked the minor brand changes as "woke" and declared that M&M's wouldn't stop until "you're totally turned off." Maya Rudolph will replace the cartoons as M&M's spokeswoman.

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Economy

For months experts have been warning of a recession. Is that risk fading?

8:09am January 24, 2023

Many analysts and economic experts have told us to expect a recession. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi, who says there has been some recent good economic news.

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Morning news brief

7:48am January 24, 2023

Seven people are dead after California's second mass shooting in three days. U.S. senators hold a hearing on whether Ticketmaster and Live Nation have too much power. Oscar nominations are announced.

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Economy

Tens of thousands of tech workers have lost their jobs since Jan. 1

7:22am January 24, 2023

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Arun Sundararajan, Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship at New York University, about the effects of sweeping layoffs on tech workers.

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Senate panel hearing will look into Ticketmaster's dominance in live entertainment

6:56am January 24, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota about Tuesday's hearing that will focus on the problems surrounding Ticketmaster's dominance in the ticketing industry.

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Maya Rudolph is the new face of M&M's ad campaign

5:09am January 24, 2023

by David Folkenflik

M&M is withdrawing its "spokescandy" ads after Fox's Tucker Carlson railed about the candies' de-sexualization — as part of a push for a "woke" society. (Story aired on ATC on Jan. 24, 2023.)

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the opening bell in New York City on Jan. 18, 2023. Survey after survey shows economists and CEOs expect a recession, but there's no certainty of what an economic contraction would look like – or if the U.S. economy will suffer one at all.

Economy

A recession might be coming. Here's what it could look like

5:01am January 24, 2023

From a mild recession to a so-called hard landing, we sift through the wild array of recession predictions.

National

Tucker Carlson's war on M&M's

5:58pm January 23, 2023

by David Folkenflik

M&M is withdrawing its "spokescandy" ads after Fox's Tucker Carlson railed about the candies' de-sexualization as part of a push for a "woke" society. Maya Rudolph is the new face of the ad campaign.

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National

Encore: HarperCollins workers have spent more than 50 days on strike. Is it working?

5:32pm January 23, 2023

by Andrew Limbong

Unionized HarperCollins Publishers employees have been striking for more than 50 days, with raising the base salary among their demands. The battle is testing the limits of worker power in publishing.

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The News Corp. building in New York City, home to Fox News.

Politics & Government

Fox News' defense in defamation suit invokes debunked election-fraud claims

11:26am January 23, 2023

by David Folkenflik

Disproven claims about Donald Trump's loss in 2020, many debunked in real time by Fox's own reporters, are part of Fox News' defense against a $1.6 billion lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems.

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