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Home Depot said Tuesday it’s investing $1 billion in wage increases for its U.S. and Canadian hourly workers.

Consumers are willing to pay monthly subscription fees for streaming services, pet food and even toilet paper. And now some restaurants are betting they’ll do the same for their favorite meals.

CNN anchor Don Lemon will return to work Wednesday and will receive “formal training” in the aftermath of his on-air comments about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, network CEO Chris Licht said in an email to employees Monday night.

New Orleans’ annual Carnival season entered its ebullient crescendo Tuesday with thousands of revelers packing the French Quarter and lining miles of parade routes in a citywide Mardi Gras celebration underpinned this year by violent crime concerns and political turmoil.

A monster winter storm took aim at the Upper Midwest on Tuesday, threatening to bring blizzard conditions, bitterly cold temperatures and 2 feet of snow in a three-day onslaught that could affect more than 40 million Americans.

A man apparently shot himself in the leg by accident while walking in Leavenworth, a police spokesman said. The incident was reported at 1:39 a.m.

A mobile home fire in Lansing was blamed on an electrical problem, a fire department official said. The fire was reported at 11:16 a.m.

Wire reports Prosecutors have dropped the possibility of a sentence enhancement that could have carried a mandatory five-year sentence against Alec Baldwin in a fatal film-set shooting, according to new court filings made public Monday. The actor-producer’s attorneys had earlier objected to the enhancement, saying it was unconstitutional because it was added after the October 2021 shooting.