Germany’s federal government and the four German states where lignite – or brown coal – is mined have agreed to “a way forward” for the phase out of coal-fired power stations in the country. In an announcement Thursday, the federal government said it would provide 40 billion euros ($44.52 billion) to the federal states affected by the transition. In addition, operators of power plants will be provided with 4.35 billion euros across the next 15 years to compensate for the shutting down of their f

Source: WikipediaTurkey lifted its more than two-and-a-half year block on Wikipedia on Thursday, after the country’s top constitutional court ruled the ban unconstitutional. Wikipedia was blocked in Turkey in April of 2017, after an English language page on the volunteer-powered site linked Turkey to support for terrorist groups including Al Qaeda and IS. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a news conference in Budapest, Hungary, November 7, 2019. Former U.S. envoy to the global anti-

Hong Kong was found to be the priciest city in the world for luxury products and services, according to a report by private bank Julius Baer. Asia came out as the most expensive region overall, home to five of the costliest cities in the world – after Hong Kong, this included Shanghai, Tokyo, Singapore and Taipei. Eight of the 10 most expensive places to buy a luxury car were in Asia, which the report attributed to high import taxes. But the cheapest city for luxury goods, Mumbai, is also in Asi

How a 24-year-old making $80,000 in Pasadena spends her moneyWendy Gonzalez, 24, lives in Pasadena, CA, and earns $80,000 a year as a logistics supervisor. This is an installment of CNBC Make It’s Millennial Money series, which profiles people across the U.S. and details how they earn, spend and save their money.

This story is part of CNBC Make It’s Millennial Money series, which profiles people around the world and details how they earn, spend and save their money. Her health insurance plan covered the entire cost of her surgery, but her savings account allowed her to feel financially secure during a trying time. Plus, they’re conscientious shoppers and stick to shopping mostly at Trader Joe’s in an effort to save more money. She has around $25,000 in her high-yield savings account, which she plans to u

O’Neal told CNBC Make It he isn’t so sure politics belong in sports. I’m just not going to talk about it,” O’Neal told CNBC Make It in December at the Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year event in New York City. “I can tell when a person is really motivated by doing it or I can tell when they are just trying to get likes,” he added. “I don’t speak out and I don’t disrespect people,” O’Neal tells CNBC Make It. “If I ever disrespect a person, it’s going to be a basketball player, and I’m on

Twenty-six years ago, Jeff Bezos had an idea that inspired him to quit his stable job at a hedge fund in New York. He moved to the suburbs of Seattle to work out of his garage and build a business that would ultimately become Amazon. Bezos launched the business as an online book seller in 1995, and today the e-commerce behemoth has a market capitalization of over $926 billion. “What’s actually happened over the last 25 years [at Amazon] is way beyond my expectations,” Bezos said during a firesid

Over the next decade, millennials are expected to inherit over $68 trillion from their baby boomer parents, according to an Oct. 2019 study from real estate firm Coldwell Banker. An inheritance tax is a state tax that you pay when you receive money or property from the estate of a person who has died. The six states that collect an inheritance tax are: Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Each state has its own set of inheritance tax rules, exemption amounts and rates

Google Maps tracks everywhere you go on your iPhone or Android phone, and then keeps a log of this information in a “Timeline” that shows you everywhere you’ve been. It’ll show you if you were driving, walking or on a train, and any pit stops you might have made during your journey. Sometimes this information can be useful, like if you want to remember the restaurant you ate at on Nov. 7 in New York City. (For me, it was Philippe Chow), and what you did before and after that. Here’s an example o

J.P. Morgan analyst and longtime General Electric bear Stephen Tusa poured cold water on the industrial giant’s recent stock run-up, saying in a note that “the price is wrong.” GE shares are up more than 33% over the past three months. The company on Oct. 30 hiked its 2019 cash flow outlook and reported quarterly results that beat analyst expectations. GE said it expects its free cash flow — a closely watched efficiency gauge for companies — to range between flat and $2 billion for 2019. But Tus

Since the explosion of student debt following the Great Recession, annual repayment rates, or the amount of existing balances lowered, have been just 3%, Moody’s said. Just 51% of borrowers whose took out loans from 2010-12 have made any progress at all in paying down their debt. Presidential candidates, particularly on the Democratic side, have made reducing or eliminating student debt a cornerstones of their campaign. In the meantime, the burden of student loans continues to be felt with an 11

Cleveland Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. celebrates after the LSU Tigers beat the Clemson Tigers in the College Football Playoff national championship game at Mercedes-Benz Superdome. The New Orleans Police Department obtained an arrest warrant for NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. following an alleged incident with a security guard after the Louisiana State University championship victory. The warrant for the Cleveland Browns wide receiver and former LSU player is related to a misdemeanor char

FBI agents on Thursday visited the Connecticut home and business of Robert Hyde, a Republican congressional candidate whose purported surveillance of the U.S. ambassador in Ukraine last year has become an issue in the impeachment of President Donald Trump. The Senate on Thursday began its impeachment trial of Trump. A neighbor of Hyde told NBC that one FBI agent arrived at Hyde’s residence before dawn and parked on the street in front of the home. The neighbor spoke to the FBI agent and said to

Today has been thick with Fire Emblem: Three Houses news, starting with the addition of Byleth to the Super Smash Bros. But the hits keep coming, as Nintendo has dropped news of the fourth wave of DLC content coming to Three Houses on Feb. 12, and it sounds like it’s going to be meaty. Thus far the Fire Emblem: Three Houses expansion pass has added a small handful of costumes, items, and playable characters, but the fourth content release will feature a new side story called Cindered Shadows. Th

Gris, A Plague Tale: Innocence, and Children of Morta will join the Xbox Game Pass for PC library in the coming weeks, bringing that collection to a total of 180. Xbox Game Pass for PC, still in beta, launched during E3 2019. Access to its lineup of PC titles is included with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, a new subscription also announced at E3 2019 (and which also bundles in Xbox Live Gold). Ordinarily, Xbox Game Pass for PC is $4.99 a month; Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is $14.99 a month. Children of Mo

Cyberpunk 2077, the highly anticipated new role-playing game from the studio behind the Witcher series, has been delayed. The game was previously expected on April 16; now it won’t launch until Sept. 17, five months later. We want Cyberpunk 2077 to be our crowning achievement for this generation and postponing launch will give us the precious months we need to make the game perfect.” We have important news regarding Cyberpunk 2077’s release date we’d like to share with you today. The delay appli

Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition comes to Switch for the first time on Feb. 20 — nine months after the original Devil May Cry hit the system. But the new Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition also brings a huge quality of life improvement to the 2005 action game: the ability to seamlessly swap your weapon style on the go. In Devil May Cry 4, Devil May Cry 5, and DMC, you can switch up which weapons you’re using pretty quickly. But the new seamless style switching works just like the other games — you s

Overwatch’s annual Lunar New Year event kicks off today, Jan. 16, with a batch of fresh skins and a semi-new game mode called Capture the Flag Blitz available in the game’s arcade. Players will get access to seven new skins during Overwatch Lunar New Year. Three of those are of the epic variety, and can be earned by playing the game and winning nine games each week. It’s the same distance as in CTF games that go into overtime, but to compensate for that frenzied pace, teams will need six capture

Another day, another Fire Emblem character added to Super Smash Bros. On Thursday, Smash Ultimate game director Masahiro Sakurai announced that Byleth is joining the series, with both male and female forms. The rest of the recorded presentation was similarly cheeky, with Sakurai seemingly trolling Smash players with a whole long section on the history of the Fire Emblem franchise. Sakurai calls Metroid’s Mother Brain “Mom”The next six Super Smash Bros. Ultimate characters have already been chose

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina returns to Netflix next week, and a new trailer reveals what horrors this season has in store. A teaser in the form of a music video hinted at some of the chilling plotlines in store — and also the fact that Sabrina was going to become a cheerleader. The first full trailer dives into the horrors without the pop music video aesthetic: Sabrina’s going to Hell to rescue her boyfriend, and just might destroy the whole dang world doing so. “Being Queen of Hell isn’t jus