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Jan 25, 2021
As hospitalizations and deaths from Covid-19 rise, governments are grappling with whether to prioritize getting a first shot of vaccine into as many arms as possible, or to take a slower approach that reserves some of the limited supply to deliver a second dose at the optimal interval to attain maximum protection. Some governments seem willing to accept the tradeoff of lower immunity to inoculate more people. Some scientists have cautioned that untested timing regimens have the potential to unde
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Jan 24, 2021
China's biggest internet companies got that way with at least tacit support from the government. Now two events have raised doubts about where those giants stand: the last-minute suspension of a stock offering by billionaire Jack Ma's sprawling Ant Group Co. due to regulatory pressure; and the introduction of a draft antitrust policy seemingly designed to rein in the most powerful, including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Ant's major backer) and Tencent Holdings Ltd., operator of the WeChat super-a
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Jan 24, 2021
One year after the coronavirus pandemic first disrupted global supply chains by closing Chinese factories, fresh shipping headaches are delaying U.S. farm exports, crimping domestic manufacturing and threatening higher prices for American consumers.
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Jan 23, 2021
The young immigrants known in the U.S. as Dreamers, and the federal program known as DACA that was designed to protect them from deportation, have dominated the fraught debate over immigration reform in Washington for the better part of a decade. President Joe Biden wants to put Dreamers on a fast track to citizenship, an idea sure to face at least some resistance in Congress.
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Jan 23, 2021
From hidden subscriptions to Amazon Prime, it's time to clean up all your online spending.
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Jan 22, 2021
Video tweeted on Jan. 21, misrepresents words spoken by President Biden on Jan.20, in order to push discredited conspiracy theories about his mental fitness.
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Jan 22, 2021
Millions of Americans now have access to free, anonymous coronavirus exposure notifications. Too bad so few people use them.
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Jan 22, 2021
The Department of Health and Human Services is scrambling for supply of special syringes. It said it advised the FDA that the move authorizing six doses of the Pfizer vaccine per vial posed hurdles.
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Jan 22, 2021
The sizable sums foreshadow the political blitz that Silicon Valley is likely to mount in the face of fresh promises from President Biden and his new Democratic control in Congress that they plan to rein in the tech industry.
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Jan 22, 2021
As China asserts its control over Hong Kong with a national security law that came into force in mid-2020, the U.K. is offering some residents of its former colony a potential route out: a proposal to allow longer stays in Britain and a pathway to future citizenship. More than 5 million people, including dependents, could qualify, although only a fraction of that total is expected to make the move anytime soon.
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Jan 22, 2021
The same Senate chamber that was overrun by insurrectionists will become a somber court for Donald Trump's impeachment trial, with senators sitting silently in judgment as they hear arguments that could make him the first president permanently disqualified from federal office.
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Jan 22, 2021
Like all new drugs, the vaccines that have been authorized to protect against Covid-19 come with some safety concerns and side effects. Many people who've received the first two Western shots deployed, one from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE, and another from Moderna Inc., have experienced fever, headache and pain at the site of the injection. These side effects generally disappear quickly. More worrisome, a small number of vaccine recipients have had a serious, but treatable, allergic reaction, ca
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Jan 22, 2021
China and Australia have become embroiled in a deepening political spat that is spilling over into trade. Even with some Chinese cities suffering power blackouts in December, the Beijing authorities continued to block coal shipments from Australia, underlining their determination. Miners aren't the only exporters Down Under finding it harder to access their biggest market as tensions ramp up, nor is Australia alone in feeling heat. Other countries that have clashed with China, including Canada,
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Jan 22, 2021
Some of the nation's best-known brands are harnessing their logistical and technological expertise to inoculate their communities against covid-19.
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Jan 22, 2021
Labor advocates found reasons for hope in the data, a deviation from decades of decline for union participation.
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Jan 22, 2021
Google and Facebook have been in a long-running fight with Australian politicians, regulators and media companies over whether they should pay news organizations for showing their stories in search results. The battle reached a new level of intensity when a Google executive threatened to pull out of the country during testimony at the Australian Senate.
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Jan 22, 2021
Forums central to spreading QAnon and supporting former President Trump have become fractured or gone offline entirely since then Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, raising questions about their long-term viability.
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Jan 22, 2021
The reserves of the trust fund that pays retirement and survivor benefits will be unable to pay full benefits in 2034.
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Jan 22, 2021
The e-commerce giant appealed a decision to hold mail-in balloting, arguing in part that the National Labor Relations Board pandemic election guidance never defined what an "outbreak" actually is.
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Jan 22, 2021
In theory, the system of free trade driving the world economy is supposed to provide a "level playing field" for all. In practice, countries have long complained that rivals unfairly dish out aid in the form of state-backed subsidies to boost favored companies -- often as they themselves do the same. The U.S. has been a vocal critic of European subsidies, notably aircraft financing, and has been focusing its attention increasingly on China's backing for its companies; in turn the European Union
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Jan 22, 2021
When the coronavirus pandemic forced Tokyo last year to delay the Summer Olympics and Paralympics to July 2021, organizers kept the Tokyo 2020 name, saying they wanted the event to be seen as a "light at the end of the tunnel." Instead a fresh surge in Covid-19 cases in many countries, including host Japan, has raised the same questions about whether it's safe to hold the games, even as the world races to vaccinate people against the disease. The first postponement since the modern Olympics bega
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Jan 22, 2021
China's biggest internet companies got that way with at least tacit support from the government. Now two events have raised doubts about where those giants stand: the last-minute suspension of a stock offering by billionaire Jack Ma's sprawling Ant Group Co. due to regulatory pressure; and the introduction of a draft antitrust policy seemingly designed to rein in the most powerful, including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Ant's major backer) and Tencent Holdings Ltd., operator of the WeChat super-a
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Jan 21, 2021
The promises Joe Biden made as a candidate fall roughly into two categories: those easy to carry out in his first days in the Oval Office, and those that will be exceedingly difficult no matter how long he tries. Because many of President Donald Trump's initiatives were accomplished by executive order, Biden can undo them with the stroke of a pen. But his bolder ideas face uphill battles in the U.S. Senate, where his fellow Democrats will hold the narrowest majority possible. Here's a partial ta
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Jan 21, 2021
The fracas began Wednesday when the Biden administration asked now-former general counsel Peter Robb to resign, a White House official said, a precedent-breaking move.
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Jan 21, 2021
The Executive Order could lead to an emergency standard for businesses — a set of a regulations they would have to comply with, like mask-wearing, that advocates say is necessary to combat the pandemic.
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Jan 21, 2021
With Q having vanished and Trump out of office, far-right extremist groups are targeting disillusioned believers online in hopes of further radicalizing them to a new cause.
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Jan 21, 2021
President Biden has followed mostly official White House accounts from the POTUS Twitter handle, except for one wild card.
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Jan 21, 2021
The request is part of a broader inquiry into a site that gained rapid new popularity last year as a freewheeling alternative to Twitter, gaining traction in particular among conservatives.
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Jan 21, 2021
Weekly unemployment claims remain near 1 million, far above previous recessions, because of the surging pandemic.
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Jan 21, 2021
A rule proposed on President Donald Trump's last full day in office forces the Biden administration into a politically sensitive debate that raises questions about separation of church and state.
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Jan 21, 2021
The 30-year fixed-rate average moved slightly lower to 2.77 percent. Traders are watching to see what actions President Biden takes to address the pandemic.
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Jan 21, 2021
In the course of a week, the New York Stock Exchange said it would delist a trio of Chinese companies, then that it wouldn't and then that it would, stoking confusion among investors globally. The moves were the result of an initiative by then-President Donald Trump to punish companies with close ties to the Chinese military as part of a crescendo in U.S.-China tensions. The dizzying sequence reflects ambiguity over both how Trump's push would work and what its impact would be. As global index p
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Jan 21, 2021
As shoppers 60 and older head online, major retailers and consumer goods brands are scrambling to meet them there.
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Jan 21, 2021
The Washington Post's picks of noteworthy residences on the market.
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Jan 21, 2021
Facebook said that it will submit its decision to ban Trump for review by an independent oversight board that can oversee its content moderation choices. It will be the most significant such case for the board, which was launched last year.
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Jan 21, 2021
Bias in home valuations has contributed to the racial wealth gap.
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Jan 21, 2021
President Biden appointed Rebecca Kelly Slaughter as the acting chairwoman of the FTC and Jessica Rosenworcel as acting chairwoman of the FCC.
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Jan 21, 2021
For decades, the U.S. stood out as the one nation that traditionally preferred its money superpower-strong. Investors flocked to it, enabling the U.S. to borrow lots of money at low interest rates. American consumers feasted on it, buying imported goodies for less. U.S. politicians touted it as evidence of the economy's eternal dynamism. Then under former President Donald Trump's "America First" manifesto, the so-called strong-dollar policy was shoved aside, as gains in the currency crimped U.S.
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Jan 21, 2021
Sometimes the decision to avoid political engagement off-the-clock is an easy one. But what about when it isn't so easy?
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Jan 21, 2021
TOWN SQUARE | A new report by ATTOM Data Solutions says that homes in Montgomery and Fairfax counties were more affordable in the fourth quarter in 2020 than 12 months prior.
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Jan 21, 2021
As shoppers 60 and older head online, major retailers and consumer goods brands are scrambling to meet them there.
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Jan 21, 2021
A movie could be an example of the very trend it seeks to expose — the Saudi crushing of dissent.
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Jan 21, 2021
The Executive Order could lead to an emergency standard for businesses — a set of a regulations they would have to comply with, like mask-wearing, that advocates say is necessary to combat the pandemic.
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Jan 21, 2021
Women are starting businesses out of necessity, because the timing is right or both.
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Jan 21, 2021
Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. officially withdrew from the Paris Agreement on global warming on Nov. 4. Trump's successor, Joe Biden, wants back in. But averting the worst effects of climate change will be an uphill battle even with the involvement of the U.S., the second-largest producer of carbon dioxide emissions, behind China. Global warming already is fueling wildfires, hurricanes and mass migrations, and in the U.S., Trump dismantled regulations meant to stifle greenhouse gas emis
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Jan 21, 2021
On his last day in office, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a "determination" accusing China of committing "atrocities" against its Uighur minority in the country's Xinjiang region. He alleged the government and Chinese Communist Party were responsible for crimes against humanity similar to those prosecuted at the Nuremburg Trials after World War II. He also leveled the charge of genocide, which he said was ongoing and described as "the systematic attempt to destroy" the Uighurs by the
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Jan 21, 2021
The Maryland-based company is closing in on $150 million in sales and planning to go public in 2021.
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Jan 21, 2021
Facebook Inc.'s WhatsApp has been alerting its 2 billion users to an update of its privacy policy -- and if they want to keep using the popular messaging app, they have to accept it. The new terms, delivered in early 2021, have caused an outcry among technology experts, privacy advocates, billionaire entrepreneurs and government organizations and triggered a wave of defections to rival services. WhatsApp says the changes are necessary to help it integrate better with other Facebook products, but
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Jan 21, 2021
The fracas began earlier Wednesday when the Biden administration asked now-former general counsel Peter Robb to resign, a White House official said, a precedent-breaking move.
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Jan 20, 2021
President-elect Joe Biden plans to sign a slew of executive orders Wednesday afternoon aimed at unwinding President Trump's environmental legacy, from restoring boundaries to national monuments to rejoining the Paris climate accord to reviving the government's role in protecting the air, water and endangered species.
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Jan 20, 2021
REAL ESTATE MATTERS | Home buyers beware: It's going to be hard to find what you want at a price you can afford this year, especially if you're looking for green space.
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Jan 20, 2021
Unlike his predecessor, who inherited a booming economy and a world at peace but could only see "carnage," Biden looked out from a ransacked Capitol to a country reeling from pandemic and riven with injustice and saw the possibility for renewal and rebuilding.
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Jan 20, 2021
President Joe Biden's administration took over the official White House social media accounts Wednesday. But Twitter didn't transfer followers, unlike with the previous administration.
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Jan 20, 2021
BUYING NEW | 1625 Eckington at Quincy Lane adds 179 units to up-and-coming NoMa neighborhood.
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Jan 20, 2021
Nearly 3,000 residents of Genesis Healthcare nursing homes have died from covid-19. The company's CEO got a $5.2 million "retention" payment in October, then announced he was retiring in January.
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Jan 20, 2021
Some employers are shifting from simply talking about better sleep — or giving employees tools to track it — to helping them with what to do about it.
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Jan 20, 2021
The state's oil regulator is a little too defensive about methane emissions.
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Jan 20, 2021
A record 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week. But some companies pledged to hold off on job cuts, and are offering workers a financial cushion.
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Jan 20, 2021
They were made by Jen Ellis, a second-grade teacher in Essex Junction, Vt.
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Jan 20, 2021
For businesses such as Lemonade, whose executives appeared in branded masks for their IPO, it's a chance to demonstrate their socially conscious identity
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Jan 20, 2021
While some QAnon disciples gave way to doubt as Trump's term ended, others doubled down on blind belief or strained to see new coded messages in the Inauguration Day's events.
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Jan 20, 2021
Douglas Jemal, convicted of wire fraud in 2007, has long ties to Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.
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Jan 20, 2021
The best news about the mRNA shots from BioNTech and Moderna is that the same technique could also defeat many other diseases.
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Jan 20, 2021
TOWN SQUARE | Each apartment will have wood plank-style floors, nine-foot-high ceilings, a washer and dryer, programmable thermostat, stainless-steel appliances, quartz countertops, pendant lights and a tile backsplash in the kitchen.
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Jan 20, 2021
Kroger said it had been donating to the Indiana Oath Keepers, who were accredited as a nonprofit in 2017, from a program that lets shoppers choose charities to benefit from their purchases.
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Jan 20, 2021
A rule proposed on President Donald Trump's last full day in office forces the Biden administration into a politically sensitive debate that raises questions about separation of church and state.
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Jan 20, 2021
WHERE WE LIVE | Along with parks, the area along the Potomac offers plenty of history.
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Jan 20, 2021
As President Joe Biden takes office, his administration faces pressure to immediately prioritize the expansion of broadband access and dismantle some of the Trump administration's hallmark efforts to deregulate the Internet.
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Jan 20, 2021
The strategy has suffered a devastating drought for more than a decade, sending investors scrambling for answers.
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Jan 20, 2021
Viruses mutate all the time, including the novel coronavirus that's caused the global Covid-19 pandemic. Most of the changes have no apparent effect. But recent variants that have emerged in the U.K., South Africa and Brazil are causing particular concern. They don't appear to be any more virulent, but studies suggest they are more contagious than other strains. More people getting infected could lead to a surge in hospitalizations -- as has happened in England and elsewhere -- and potentially m
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Jan 20, 2021
The biggest machine on Earth delivers more than $400 billion of electricity a year across nearly 7 million miles (11 million kilometers) of transmission and distribution lines. It's the U.S. power grid, an interconnected system of generating plants, wires, transformers and substations that keeps the lights on for the homes, offices and factories of the world's largest economy. Now, President-elect Joe Biden wants it to be carbon-free by 2035 as part of his ambitious plans to confront climate cha
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Jan 20, 2021
The rise in the shares of Elon Musk's company defies logic. That hasn't stopped Wall Street analysts trying to rationalize it.
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Jan 20, 2021
When Twitter banned President Donald Trump after a mob he had encouraged stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the White House fell into an unusual social media silence. But the company's move, followed by actions by Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon to cut off individual users or social media platforms they saw as inciting violence, turned a long-simmering feud with conservatives into a full-throated battle. Trump supporters complained their free speech rights were being curtailed, but many libe
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Jan 20, 2021
The plan calls for "buffer seating," sanitizer stations in common rooms and one-way hallway traffic patterns to avoid "bottlenecks"
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Jan 20, 2021
Full Democratic control of the levers of federal lawmaking under President Joe Biden rests on the slimmest-possible advantage in the U.S. Senate, where any party-line vote will result in a 50-50 tie. The even Senate split, rare in American history, gives the Biden administration little margin for error and is subject to a power-sharing agreement on some administrative matters.
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Jan 19, 2021
Mike Lindell, a major Republican donor, has repeatedly pushed false claims that widespread voter fraud cost President Trump the 2020 election.
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Jan 19, 2021
A late start, stimulus payments that still need to be issued, 2019 returns not yet processed. These are just a few of the issues that could make for a stressful 2021 tax season.
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Jan 19, 2021
States have responded to the slow rollout of coronavirus vaccine by expanding eligibility for the shots to people over 65. But the moves have made it more difficult to recruit and retain test subjects for clinical trials of vaccines that have yet to win emergency authorization.
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Jan 19, 2021
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a Trump administration rule on carbon dioxide emissions, effectively restoring President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, which limited those pollutants from power plants.
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Jan 19, 2021
Mike Lindell, a major Republican donor, has repeatedly pushed false claims that widespread voter fraud cost President Trump the 2020 election.
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Jan 19, 2021
Nine companies have taken no action to cut off donations to the campaign funds of lawmakers who objected to certifying the presidential election.
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Jan 19, 2021
If confirmed, Cecilia Rouse would become the first Black official to head the Council of Economic Advisers, and only the fourth woman.
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Jan 19, 2021
Biden is expected to soon reverse the efforts of the Trump administration and end a project proposed more than a decade ago.
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Jan 19, 2021
Control of both the White House and Congress by Democrats could result in reforms to competition laws governing large tech companies' business practices and even more litigation that could force break ups or significant structural changes at some of the world's largest businesses.
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Jan 19, 2021
The choice of the Obama-era regulators to lead two key agencies overseeing the financial sector signals the incoming Biden team's intent to provide an aggressive check on industry after four years of deregulation.
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Jan 19, 2021
Five groups got more than $850,000 in loans to help small businesses through the pandemic. The groups have been penalized by Facebook for spreading misinformation.
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Jan 19, 2021
It rose almost $7.8 trillion during his time in the White House — approaching World War II levels, relative to the size of the economy. This time around, it will be much harder to dig ourselves out.
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Jan 19, 2021
The plight of black entrepreneurs in Tulsa, nearly a century after one of the nation's worst acts of racial violence.
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Jan 17, 2021
A century after Tulsa massacre, demands for reparations grow as a once thriving commercial district known as Black Wall Street develops into a 'White-owned commercial hub.'
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Jan 15, 2021
Ben & Jerry's and parent Unilever bank on our pet obsession, launching super-premium Doggie Desserts.
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Jan 15, 2021
A Post analysis of 49 companies found that only a small share of their contributions went directly to the 147 lawmakers who objected to counting presidential election results.
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Jan 15, 2021
The U.S. is an outlier for its lack of mandatory paid sick leave. Biden's plan seeks to eliminate loopholes that prevented some 100 million workers from accessing it during the pandemic.
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Jan 15, 2021
French oil giant Total quits American Petroleum Institute over differences on subsidies for electric vehicles and carbon pricing.
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Jan 15, 2021
Tax Season 2021: The backlog for paper returns is large and likely to grow, so anyone. The IRS received roughly 16 million paper individual returns last year and as of Dec. 25 had a backlog of 6.9 million unprocessed individual returns.
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Jan 15, 2021
The Small Business Administration has started offering loans for its next round of PPP funding. Here's what small-business owners should expect in the next round of funding.
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