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Oct 23, 2019
There are already signs that this holiday season could be a challenging one for retailers, as political and economic uncertainty continue to wear down shoppers.
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Oct 23, 2019
The founder and ousted CEO is stepping down from WeWork's board.
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Oct 23, 2019
The decision means an $85 billion ballistic missile program has only one likely bidder.
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Oct 23, 2019
HireVue claims it uses artificial intelligence to decide who's best for a job. Outside experts call it "profoundly disturbing."
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Oct 23, 2019
A management shake-up in its commercial airplanes division is too little and too late.
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Oct 23, 2019
Esper's son is employed with one of the contract's bidders. Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist will handle the review going forward.
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Oct 23, 2019
The blocking of Boris Johnson's high-speed legislation puts the onus back on Brussels to extend. It's probably best to do so, even if France objects.
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Oct 23, 2019
One retiree will spend 40 to 50 hours looking for the right Medicare plan.
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Oct 23, 2019
Forty-six attorneys general have joined a New York-led antitrust investigation of Facebook, the states announced Tuesday, commencing a high-stakes, sweeping bipartisan probe of the tech giant.
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Oct 23, 2019
The expanded roster of participants raises the stakes in a sweeping bipartisan probe of the tech giant that could result in massive changes to its business practices.
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Oct 23, 2019
The company enabled the reporting mechanism for Android users earlier this year.
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Oct 23, 2019
For the first time, a new study claims, a machine has harnessed quantum physics to answer a question no classical computer could solve.
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Oct 23, 2019
Executives say the toymaker is facing a "very choppy environment" as it prepares for the crucial holiday season.
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Oct 23, 2019
Our tech columnist helps identify a HIPAA loophole, explains ApplePay and shares a Firefox upgrade that helps you track the data trackers on your computer.
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Oct 23, 2019
Chile is Latin America's best-rated credit and one of its most prosperous economies. Yet popular anger at government policies has been brewing for a long time among Chileans frustrated with growing income inequality and a weak social safety net, including skimpy pensions. A 30-peso ($.04) increase in the price of a subway ticket set off the worst civil unrest since the country returned to democracy in 1990. President Sebastian Pinera declared a state of emergency and called in troops. He also qu
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Oct 23, 2019
Months of massive and often violent protests in Hong Kong have driven the popularity rating for the city's Beijing-backed leader, Carrie Lam, to historic lows. Lam herself has taken the blame for the "entire unrest" after introducing -- and then withdrawing -- a bill that would have for the first time allowed extraditions to mainland China. The Financial Times has reported that the Chinese government was drafting plans to install a new "interim" leader by March. But replacing a Hong Kong chief e
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Oct 23, 2019
Can you strike a blow against climate change by getting rid of your oil company stocks -- and can you do it without losing money? The idea is not just for activists anymore. Norway took a partial step in selling off oil and gas stocks in its massive $1 trillion wealth fund. And a growing number of investors who control trillions more are using the threat of divestment as a cudgel to force energy companies to adopt greener ways. Together these approaches are producing a notable disruption in the
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Oct 23, 2019
Malaysia's state-owned investment fund, 1MDB, was supposed to promote development. Instead, it has spurred investigations around the world that have cast an unflattering spotlight on deal-making, election spending and political patronage under former Prime Minister Najib Razak. The figures are mind-boggling: Of the $8 billion that 1MDB raised via bond sales, the U.S. alleges more than half was siphoned off. Angry voters ousted Najib in a 2018 election that ended his party's 61 years of rule. A s
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Oct 23, 2019
REAL ESTATE MATTERS | The first thing to do is find out which form of ownership the home is under: joint tenants, tenants by the entirety or tenants in common.
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Oct 23, 2019
More infrastructure is required. Load up state-owned enterprises with debt, like China, and get it done.
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Oct 23, 2019
Rep. Ruben Gallego blasted Zuckerberg's recollection as an attempt to redraw the company's image as altruistic in the face of growing scrutiny.
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Oct 23, 2019
Be sure to find out how the company charges for service calls. Ask about the minimum charge and how much time is included in the minimum.
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Oct 23, 2019
Facebook's digital currency project is stepping back from global ambitions that threatened to weaken the levers of monetary policy.
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Oct 23, 2019
Asked by Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) on whether he felt the need to apologize for his remarks about "big, hairy men" trying to infiltrate women's homeless shelters, HUD Secretary Ben Carson declined.
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Oct 23, 2019
"We were forced to write fake reviews for our products ... which came directly from Sunday Riley herself," the Reddit allegation said. The Federal Trade Commission confirmed it.
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Oct 23, 2019
Thirty modern farmhouses are planned as part of the 400-acre Landsdale community.
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Oct 23, 2019
The artistic director of women's collections at the French fashion house called Trump "a joke."
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Oct 23, 2019
While the artistic director of women's collections at the French fashion house vented, Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy chairman and chief executive Bernard Arnault sought to portray the event as nonpolitical.
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Oct 23, 2019
Beginning Jan. 1, Plank will be succeeded by Chief Operating Officer Patrik Frisk.
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Oct 23, 2019
You can make a fresh start financially after divorce.
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Oct 23, 2019
Economists analyzed an enormous trove of ride and driver data from the period when Uber rolled out tipping on its app, and found which groups tip the most, which tip the least, and what might account for some of the differences.
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Oct 23, 2019
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Oct. 17 that the Iraq War influenced his decision to start Facebook.
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Oct 20, 2019
Even Brexiters now realize that the Kafkaesque Brexit nightmare is a U.K. problem, not a European one. The EU's patience will run out eventually.
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Oct 20, 2019
It makes more profit than any other company in the world, but is it the most valuable? The answer is now unlikely to come before December, after Saudi Aramco again delayed plans for a mammoth initial public offering. Aramco's sudden decision to hold off on the share sale disrupted a carefully orchestrated effort to launch on Oct. 20. The sale is part of a grand vision to reshape Saudi Arabia's economy by the kingdom's controversial Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. It's no ordinary IPO, and not
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Oct 20, 2019
What central banks once sneered at, they're now scrambling to master. Back when Bitcoin, the world's first cryptocurrency, was seen as the province of anarchists and drug dealers, it was easy for the world's central bankers to keep their distance. That's changed in a hurry because of Facebook Inc.'s proposal to create its own digital currency, Libra, which is seen by many regulators as a threat to existing monetary regimes. The central banks of China, Sweden, the Bahamas and others have been exp
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Oct 20, 2019
Market management just isn't working. Instead of supporting oil prices, the kingdom's output cuts are propping up higher-cost rivals.
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Oct 20, 2019
REAL ESTATE MATTERS | In many states, when a seller makes repairs to a home, the seller is not obligated to tell you about those repairs. The seller must only to be honest with you about whether they are aware of any material defects with the major components to the home.
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Oct 20, 2019
Lebanon is no stranger to crisis. But this one is different for the tiny country that straddles the geopolitical fault lines of the Middle East and endured a 15-year civil war that ended in 1990. The...
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Oct 20, 2019
The company's founder would owe an additional $5.5 billion in taxes in the first year of the presidential candidate's proposed tax, should it ever be enacted.
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Oct 20, 2019
Religious-affiliated pension plans — like the one at this New York state hospital — do not have to get insurance coverage, under the law. And that can spell trouble for retirees if they run low on funds.
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Oct 20, 2019
English majors are down 25.5 percent since the Great Recession, just as world's top economists say we need more ‘storytellers.'
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Oct 19, 2019
The way a will is handled can permanently change a family
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Oct 19, 2019
Qantas's services from Sydney to London and New York can only be profitable with plenty of passengers flying business.
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Oct 19, 2019
Portland-based Dhvani says it's taking a stand for women, but critics say it's all about shock value.
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Oct 19, 2019
The appeal of monthly subscription boxes is often convenience. Just make sure the service is truly saving you time and money.
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Oct 19, 2019
A Twitterstorm erupted after the list, developed by business professors and published by Forbes, included only one woman. Forbes has created a task force in response.
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Oct 19, 2019
As climate change threatens to make power outages more frequent, California businesses are turning to solar-powered systems to protect their operations when the lights go out.
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Oct 19, 2019
California's attorney general filed a lawsuit against Navient and two of its subsidiaries, Pioneer and General Revenue Corp., alleging misconduct.
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Oct 19, 2019
Hurd, 62, previously led Hewlett-Packard.
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Oct 19, 2019
The Pentagon's use of an arcane procurement regulation called "Other Transaction Authority" has exploded in recent years. The program was originally intended to help small businesses, but defense giants are reaping benefits.
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Oct 18, 2019
Apple's Screen Time is meant to give customers a way to control their kids' devices, but intrepid youngsters have exploited bugs and workarounds.
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Oct 18, 2019
The strike is part of an uptick in workplace organizing in recent years, raising hopes that unions could end their decades-long slide.
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Oct 18, 2019
Democratic proposals for a wealth tax risk opening up a class war — which is not what most Americans want.
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Oct 18, 2019
Hurd, 62, had previously led Hewlett-Packard.
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Oct 18, 2019
Portland-based Dhvani says it's taking a stand for women, but critics say it's all about shock value.
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Oct 18, 2019
In a city overrun with Type A workaholics who spend so much time in their offices that they might as well live there, turning cubicles into homes seems logical. But there are sound economic reasons, too.
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Oct 18, 2019
Creditors aren't politely waiting in line to claim their collateral as the law of the jungle threatens finance.
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Oct 18, 2019
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg drew fresh ire from Democratic presidential candidates, free speech experts and civil rights advocates, who argued his speech in Washington this week failed to acknowledged the troubles with the tech giant's practices.
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Oct 18, 2019
Invoking Martin Luther King Jr., the Vietnam War and World War I, he argued that in times of social turmoil, there's often an impulse to crack down on free expression.
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Oct 18, 2019
Delaying its IPO to wrap in more numbers makes little sense when oil prices are so low.
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Oct 18, 2019
The Disney CEO keeps saying he's not running.
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Oct 18, 2019
While a deal on Brexit is good news, U.K. retailers will still have to keep prices low this Christmas no matter what happens.
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Oct 18, 2019
The goal, researchers say, was to create a robot that learns the way humans do — through trial and error. Eventually, those robots could be used to complete tasks — in a warehouse or perhaps on the surface of a new planet — with more autonomy.
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Oct 18, 2019
Domestic demand is cooling in the world's second-largest economy, hampering expansion.
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Oct 18, 2019
Millennials are more educated than earlier generations. And in their leisure time, they're more likely to whip out the games.
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Oct 18, 2019
Renters these days have many options, including traditional apartment buildings, newer micro-units and single-family houses.
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Oct 18, 2019
Christina Koch and Jessica Meir ventured outside the International Space Station just months after NASA had to cancel an all-female spacewalk because of a spacesuit-sizing problem.
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Oct 18, 2019
From Swedish teens skipping school to picket their parliament, to protesters dousing Wall Street's iconic "Charging Bull" sculpture with fake blood, citizens are putting themselves at the forefront of the fight to limit climate change. A wave of student-led Climate Strikes has spread to more than 200 countries, while support for activist group Extinction Rebellion has grown worldwide, with crowds of non-violent demonstrators disrupting cities from Chicago to Tokyo to make their point. The protes
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Oct 18, 2019
A win for Johnson on Saturday would see the pound settle into a higher range, but an election and the need for an EU trade deal muddies the water.
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Oct 18, 2019
He is also heading to Capitol Hill again next week.
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Oct 18, 2019
A South Florida dentist added nearly 40 rare games to his collection. And he's not the only one scouring the world for them.
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Oct 18, 2019
A new subscription promises Delta travelers priority boarding ?— all the better to find space for those carry-on bags ?— and eight free drinks a year.
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Oct 18, 2019
Wirecard's bosses need to come out of the bunker and offer a line-by-line response to allegations about its financial reporting.
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Oct 18, 2019
China's economic growth is slowing. The 6% expansion reported in the third quarter is the weakest since the government began releasing quarterly data in 1992. An obvious cause is the ongoing trade war with the U.S., but the economy would be decelerating even without that as it transitions away from the high-debt, often wasteful growth model of the past. The knock-on effects are global, affecting companies and consumers alike.
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Oct 18, 2019
As climate change threatens to make power outages more frequent, California businesses are turning to solar-powered systems to protect their operations when the lights go out.
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Oct 18, 2019
The power of tele-customer service meant I got my money's worth — and I almost didn't pick up the phone.
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Oct 18, 2019
For starters, rethink "I'm with Bernie."
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Oct 18, 2019
The U.S. and Turkey have been allies for more than six decades, but in recent years their relationship has been repeatedly strained by disputes. A Turkish military offensive against a Syrian Kurdish militia allied with the U.S. has created the latest discord. Other roots of friction include a U.S. prosecution of one of Turkey's largest banks and Ankara's purchase of a missile-defense system from Russia. The U.S. and Turkey, which run the two largest armies in NATO, affirm the need to maintain th
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Oct 17, 2019
Facebook live stream viewers saw nearly entirely positive comments and emojis during Zuckerberg's speech because of how the algorithms behind a live-stream with tens of thousands of viewers work.
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Oct 17, 2019
Free expression is great. Malice is a lot harder to manage.
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Oct 17, 2019
This Apple supplier boosted its spending by 40% and showed a pragmatic approach to inventory management. Plenty for investors to cheer.
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Oct 17, 2019
The heart of Trump's "phase one" trade deal with China is supposed to be $50 billion of U.S. farm product purchases a year, but the Chinese have yet to confirm that number, and details remain scarce.
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Oct 17, 2019
In a tight Canadian election that will be remembered for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's self-inflicted wounds, one thing that seems clear is that neither of the two main parties is poised to win enough seats to form a majority government. Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party, would have to join forces with the Green Party or the left-leaning New Democrats to stay in power for a second term. If the opposition Conservatives can muster the most seats by a good margin, their leader, Andrew Scheer,
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Oct 17, 2019
This is the full text of the speech Mark Zuckerberg gave at Georgetown University on free expression.
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Oct 17, 2019
Japan has planned traditional pageantry and banquets to celebrate the enthronement of Emperor Naruhito in the world's oldest hereditary monarchy, and invited the world to Tokyo for the festivities. The ceremony takes place Tuesday at the Imperial Palace, nearly six months after he inherited the Chrysanthemum Throne from his 85-year-old father, Akihito, who became the first emperor in two centuries to abdicate, citing health concerns. The ceremony will be followed by a series of banquets hosted b
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Oct 17, 2019
It claims private interest in some of its parts, but there are still questions about the sum.
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Oct 17, 2019
America, long the industry's chief bodyguard, is eyeing retirement.
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Oct 17, 2019
America's founding fathers probably didn't envision Donald Trump. They did, however, include a sentence in the U.S. Constitution that could curb the activities of a businessman-president.
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Oct 17, 2019
The heart of Trump's "phase one" trade deal with China is supposed to be $50 billion of U.S. farm product purchases a year, but the Chinese have yet to confirm that number and details remain scarce.
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Oct 17, 2019
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview with The Washington Post that he worries "about an erosion of truth" online but defended the policy allowing politicians to peddle ads containing misrepresentations and lies on his social network, a stance that has sparked an outcry during the 2020 presidential campaign.
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Oct 17, 2019
The Federal Trade Commission said Texas-based AdvoCare deceived people into believing they could earn a great deal of money as "distributors" of the company's health and wellness products, such as its Spark energy drink.
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Oct 17, 2019
Here's how the game's creators injected more reality into Modern Warfare.
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Oct 17, 2019
This week marks the start of a federal trial in Cleveland over who should pay for one of this century's worst public health crises.
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Oct 17, 2019
The 30-year fixed-rate average increased to 3.69 percent.
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Oct 17, 2019
USMCA ship may have already sailed.
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Oct 17, 2019
It's all about the economy, not impeachment or Syria.
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Oct 17, 2019
The Consumer Product Safety Commission proposed limiting all infant sleepers to 10-degree inclines to prevent deaths. The move comes months after a stunning recall of millions of inclined sleepers.
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Oct 17, 2019
There's been a boom in new foods and beverages for children six months to 3 years old, packaged for convenience and promising to make children stronger and smarter. But most are extremely high in sugar.
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Oct 17, 2019
Democratic proposals for a wealth tax risk opening up a class war — which is not what most Americans want.
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Oct 17, 2019
Tech and other companies deserve criticism, but they don't deserve to be fall guys for an ineffective government.
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