With the calendar working against them this year, retailers are scrambling to make the most of the shortest Christmas shopping season since 2013. Adobe Analytics predicts online retailers could lose as much as $1 billion due to Thanksgiving coming six days later than last year.
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Thieves broke into one of the world’s oldest museums on Monday, making off with three sets of ornate 18th-century jewelry. Museum officials said they couldn’t place a dollar value on the stolen items because they would be “impossible to sell.” But a German newspaper estimated their value at just over $1 billion.
The National Weather Service issued blizzard and winter weather warnings from the Rocky Mountains to the Great Lakes on Tuesday. A foot of snow fell in parts of Colorado and Wyoming, canceling about a quarter of the flights scheduled at Denver International Airport.
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