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Black Friday, routinely one of retail’s busiest shopping days of the year in the United States, has spread to countries around the world. Chaotic scenes of aggressive shoppers battling one another for deeply discounted goods are making the rounds on social media Friday.  

Three people were shot after a fight broke out Thursday night at a shopping mall in Birmingham, Alabama.

Some of Amazon’s workers in Europe are protesting against what they call unfair work conditions, in a move meant to disrupt operations on Black Friday.

Home assistants are creepy and terrifying. Don’t buy them.

Technical problems with Facebook’s ad platform ahead of Black Friday risk angering advertisers yet again.

Facebook Ad Platform Crashes Ahead of Black Friday

Gun store owners claim to have lost approximately $70,000 in Christmas sales due to the inaccessibility of the FBI’s background check system.

We are a society that values and cherishes stuff. Things. Memories. Ask any household in America and I bet they would say they wish they could get rid of some, but the memories they have stored away are so much more important than more space. You don’t really realize how important these things are to you until they are taken from you, sometimes unexpectedly and harshly.

Christmas season shopping exploded to a record $5 billion in online sales this Black Friday, showing that the Internet is growing as a major artery of commerce nationwide.

A small group of Chicago residents protested during this year’s Black Friday shopping day, but the mere one hour of protesting and the size of the crowd have dwindled compared to the past two years of protests.

U.S. stocks rose higher on Black Friday as signs of confident consumers and a strong holiday shopping season bolstered hopes for retail sales.

Prominent black celebrities, including actors Yvette Nicole Brown, Meagan Good, and Dulé Hill, star in a Funny or Die video posted Thursday urging Americans to “take Black Friday back” by donating to The Collective PAC, an organization committed to ‘fund and elect 45 progressive black candidates in 2017 & 2018.’

Shoppers are turning out in stores and showing up online, signaling that this might be the greatest holiday shopping season in a decade.

Breitbart News executive chairman and former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon said in an interview with SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily radio show that the United States must return to “traditionalism” when it comes to the holiday season while slamming the “disturbing” consumerism that has consumed Thanksgiving.

Police were called on a Marine veteran who was holding a sign on Black Friday advertising for Firearms Unknown, a gun store in Oceanside.

Video of a group of grown men kicking, punching and wrestling each other at a Northern California mall on Black Friday has gone viral.

The number of background checks for gun purchases performed on Black Friday 2016 broke the record for Black Friday background checks as well as the overall single day record.

A shopper in Tulalip, WA captured video of a Nike outlet store towards the end of the chaos that can be Black Friday shopping. “It looked like an earthquake just rocked the place,” Larry Downer told ABC. In the video, taken

On Friday, MSNBC covered Black Lives Matter activists and other protesters marching along Chicago’s Michigan Avenue to disrupt Black Friday shopping while demanding citizen oversight of the police department. Blake McCoy reported, “These protesters are on the move, shutting down

A 33-year-old man was shot and killed at a Wal-Mart in Reno, Nevada on Thursday evening in an apparent dispute over a parking spot.

Hours after gathering with family and friends for turkey and football on Thanksgiving, Americans across the country hit shopping centers, malls and superstores for Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year and one of the most crucial for retailers — but once again, the day was marred by scattered reports of violence and mayhem at stores nationwide.

As they have done for several years now, racial justice warriors have declared the busiest shopping day of the year to be #BlackoutBlackFriday and are urging black Americans and their comrades to protest injustice and the election of Donald Trump by not taking advantage of low sale prices and once-a-year deals.

2ndVote, a conservative watchdog group for corporate advocacy, is launching a campaign — #AnywhereButTARGET — ahead of Black Friday and the holiday shopping season.

The previous July record was set in 2015, when there were 1,600,832 background checks. But the FBI reports that July 2016 there were 2,197,169–an increase of nearly 600,000 checks.

With less than a week until Valentine’s Day, investors’ love affair with Silicon Valley continues to come undone as the tech-stock heavy NASDAQ Index plunged on the Feb. 8 opening down 3.5 percent.

The FBI reports that November was the seventh consecutive month of record-breaking background checks.

Late Tuesday afternoon, Minnesota Judge Karen Janisch refused to halt a large Black Lives Matter protest planned for Wednesday at the Mall of America.

Although background checks on Black Friday were record-setting, SK Arms in Midland, TX, says sales the day after President Obama’s terrorism/gun control speech were even bigger.

On December 10, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said it is “tragic” that Americans are pouring into gun stores to buy weapons because America is already “awash in guns.”

The final $1.1 trillion spending bill being negotiated in Congress will be a massive 1,000+ page of legislation that few people will read. In addition to funding government through next year, the must-pass bill is likely to contain dozens of provisions that would otherwise be difficult to pass.

A record number of gun-buyers flooded into retail stores on Black Friday, according to federal data, which showed that background checks surged to an unprecedented 185,345.

The attempts by Black Lives Matter to shut down Black Friday shopping didn’t just happen in Chicago; video released over the weekend by video activist Leo Stratton shows that the group also did a shutdown action at Portland, Oregon’s Lloyd Center Mall.

CNN Commentator and Morehouse College Professor Marc Lamont Hill said the Black Friday protests in Chicago were “saying that we’re not going to continue to fund our own genocide” on Friday’s “Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield” on CNN. Hill responded

A third day of protests descended upon Chicago’s busy downtown Michigan Avenue shopping district, shutting down some stores as protesters barricaded doors arm-in-arm to prevent shoppers from entering or leaving stores on Chicago’s famed “Magnificent Mile.”

Democratic socialist candidate for president Bernie Sanders wasn’t getting into the Black Friday spirit, spending the day tweeting an angry missive against retail giant WalMart.

Unions rallied their employees, students and allies staged a protest at a Walmart in Pico Rivera, Calif., kicking off a national campaign to pressure the retailer to pay a $15-an-hour minimum wage.