Surprise Stock-Market Rally Bulldozes Bearish Hedge Funds
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Aug 8, 2023
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Short covering reaches highest cumulative dollar amount in years ...
Bacardi’s Russia Business Grows as Other Booze Makers Leave Country
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Aug 8, 2023
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The owner of Grey Goose vodka and Bacardi rum is hiring staff and shipping millions of dollars of products to the market ...
Satire a Casualty as Arab Nations Clamp Down on Free Speech
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Aug 8, 2023
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AlHudood, the Onion of the Middle East, was banned in Jordan ahead of new law to curb online criticism ...
Why Democrats Lost Iowa
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Aug 8, 2023
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White, rural voters have turned the political battleground into a Republican stronghold, putting it further out of Democrats’ rea...
Biden to Designate New National Monument to Protect Land Near Grand Canyon
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Aug 8, 2023
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The mining industry and local Republican officials have opposed the move ...
Who Would Trump Pick for VP? The Field Is Wide Open
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Aug 8, 2023
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The Republican presidential front-runner remains focused on party primaries as speculation swirls about running mate ...
China Reassures Russia on Ukraine After Meeting on How to End the War
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Aug 8, 2023
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Chinese foreign minister vows Beijing will remain ‘independent and impartial’ in seeking solutions to the conflict ...
Elon Musk Calls Cybertruck Tesla’s ‘Best Product Ever.’ Here Comes the Test.
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Aug 8, 2023
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Truck is expected to hit the market by end of year, two years behind schedule ...
Credit Card, PayPal or Cash App? How You Pay Matters
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Aug 8, 2023
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A guide to weighing security, convenience and benefits of each payment option ...
New Lending by Mortgage REITs Has Dried Up
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Aug 8, 2023
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Blackstone Mortgage Trust and KKR Real Estate Finance Trust halt loan origination to shore up balance sheets; Starwood cuts back ...
The Legal Assault on Corporate Diversity Efforts Has Begun
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Aug 8, 2023
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Conservative groups challenge Amazon, Comcast and others using many of the same tools that helped kill affirmative-action program...
Your Electric Bill Is Likely Headed Lower, Just Not as Low as Before
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Aug 8, 2023
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Falling fuel prices are lowering rates, but regional differences, fickle weather make for bumpy ride Americans now pay an averag...
Chinese Exports Fall at Steepest Pace Since February 2020
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Aug 8, 2023
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Slide in outbound shipments reflects fraying trade ties with the Western world, even as exports to Russia boom ...
China Drafts Rules for Facial-Recognition Use
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Aug 8, 2023
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Authorities propose limits on when to use such technology, even as they leave national-security exceptions ...
UPS Cuts Outlook Amid Slowdown in Parcel Volumes
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Aug 8, 2023
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Delivery firm expects lower profit margins this year after labor agreement with Teamsters ...
U.S.-Made Cluster Munitions Fuel Ukrainian Counteroffensive
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Aug 8, 2023
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Bombs are destroying Russian trenches and artillery systems in an area where Kyiv’s troops had struggled to advance ...
Dozens Die in China Floods as Typhoon Remnants Batter North
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Aug 8, 2023
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Nearly two weeks after making landfall, Doksuri still wreaks mayhem—and another storm is coming ...
China’s Largest Surviving Developer Hits Debt Crisis
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Aug 8, 2023
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Company’s U.S. dollar bonds plunge after it misses interest payments ...
SoftBank Plans Fresh AI Bets After First Investment Gains in 18 Months
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Aug 8, 2023
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Technology-sector rebound emboldens Japanese investor despite overall losses ...
It’s a Weird Time to Be Named Ken
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Aug 8, 2023
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A boy’s name last popular in the 1960s is suddenly everywhere, thanks to the blockbuster ‘Barbie’ movie and its attendant discour...
Steve Jobs’s Beat-Up Birkenstocks Sold for $218,000. A Fan Made His Own.
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Aug 8, 2023
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It wasn’t just black turtlenecks. The tech titan’s shoes have long been an object of fascination. Josewong, who created this rep...
Harlem, Pummeled by the Pandemic, Experiences a Tourism Revival
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Aug 8, 2023
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Marriott to open new Harlem hotel as tourists flock to the neighborhood Visits to Harlem over the past year are up more than 15%...
Why AI Headshots Are Failing Women of Color
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Aug 8, 2023
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Artificial-intelligence software can make skin tones lighter and change facial features when used to create headshots AI generat...
Weight-Loss Drug Wegovy Cuts Heart Risk in New Study
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Aug 8, 2023
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Analysts say a proven heart-health benefit could increase pressure on employers, insurers to pay for the drug ...
A Famous Hippie Freetown Is Ganging Up on Drug Criminals
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Aug 8, 2023
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Copenhagen’s Christiania neighborhood attracts crowds of tourists and hardened criminals Residents of Christiania in Copenhagen ...
Hanesbrands Draws Activist Investor Seeking to Shake Up Underwear Maker
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Aug 8, 2023
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Barington Capital pushes company to find new directors, possibly a new CEO ...
Ergen Strikes Deal to Merge Dish, EchoStar
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Aug 8, 2023
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Deal aims to give Dish the financial flexibility it needs to compete in the next generation of wireless ...
Taiwan’s TSMC to Build First European Chip Plant in Germany
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Aug 8, 2023
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Move reflects Europe’s efforts to increase its resilience to geopolitical shocks ...
Fox Revenue Remains Flat Amid Soft Ad Market
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Aug 8, 2023
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Lower advertising revenue offset higher affiliate fees ...
Elon Musk Says We Need Way More Electricity. Is He Right?
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Aug 8, 2023
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Long-term energy demand is notoriously difficult to forecast. But there are some obvious reasons for concern, even in the short r...
Women’s Problem Drinking Is Catching Up to Men’s
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Aug 8, 2023
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On the rise for the past two decades, women’s alcohol use jumped during the pandemic Alcohol-related ER visits, hospitalizations...
Ohio Votes on Issue 1, an Abortion-Rights Proxy
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Aug 8, 2023
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Measure would make it harder to pass future constitutional amendments ...
The AI Frenzy Resurrects the Old SoftBank
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Aug 8, 2023
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The tech downturn didn’t chasten SoftBank for long. Signs of overexuberance are already reappearing along with the new bull marke...
Trump taunts defeated U.S. women's national team
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Aug 8, 2023
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There's a clear culprit behind the shock ouster of the United States from the ongoing Women's World Cup, at least in the mind of D...
Trump wants to relocate his D.C. criminal case. His judge has previously rejected his arguments.
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Aug 8, 2023
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Donald Trump and his lawyer are touting several arguments for moving the former president’s newest — and most damaging — criminal ...
Trump and his new lawyer are not on the same page about judge’s recusal
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Aug 8, 2023
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Donald Trump blared Sunday morning that his legal team would be “immediately asking for recusal” of U.S. District Court Judge Tany...
A passenger used a boarding pass found in the trash. CLEAR escorted them through airport security.
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Aug 8, 2023
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CLEAR, which allows airline passengers to pay to be whisked through airport security checkpoints, is under increasing scrutiny fro...
John Eastman, awaiting potential indictment, asks judge to postpone his disbarment proceedings
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Aug 8, 2023
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Attorney John Eastman, an architect of Donald Trump’s last-ditch efforts to subvert the 2020 election, is asking a California judg...
FTC to hold ‘last rites’ meeting before likely Amazon suit
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Aug 8, 2023
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Amazon officials have been called into meetings next week with commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission, marking what is almo...
Biden celebrates Houston Astros at White House for 2022 World Series win
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Aug 8, 2023
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President Joe Biden extended the Houston Astros a champions’ welcome on Monday, with the team’s trip from the baseball diamond to ...
