Business
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Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports
LOS ANGELES — More than a decade after Apple disrupted the music industry and Amazon upended retail, the tech heavyweights have set their sights ...
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Comics That Read Top to Bottom Are Bringing in New Readers
For decades, the fans who powered the comic book industry made weekly pilgrimages to their local comic shops to buy the latest issues about their ...
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How the Government Is Failing Americans Uprooted by Calamity
LAKE CHARLES, La. — Two summers ago, Hurricane Laura wrecked Betty Swope’s modest bungalow at the edge of Lake Charles, a city surrounded by oil ...
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T-Mobile Reaches $500 Million Settlement in Huge 2021 Data Breach
T-Mobile has agreed to a settlement totaling $500 million in a class-action lawsuit filed by customers after the company disclosed in August that ...
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Vince McMahon retires from W.W.E. after stepping down amid a board investigation.
Vince McMahon, the longtime chairman and chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment, announced on Friday that he had retired, a month after ...
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Reporter Says Taliban Forced Her to Publicly Retract Accurate Articles
The Taliban forced a longtime war correspondent to publicly retract some of her articles this week, telling her that she would go to jail if she ...
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Chipotle closes a Maine store, and workers say it’s because of a union drive.
Workers who filed for a union election at a Chipotle in Augusta, Maine, are accusing the company of seeking to undermine their campaign by ...
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Tesla Profit Falls in Second Quarter as Supply Chain Problems Hurt
Tesla said Wednesday that profit in the second quarter fell nearly one-third from the first quarter as deliveries slowed because of shutdowns and ...
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How Joe Manchin Left a Global Tax Deal in Limbo
WASHINGTON — In June, months after reluctantly signing on to a global tax agreement brokered by the United States, Ireland’s finance minister met ...
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Global Central Banks Ramp Up Inflation Fight
Central bankers around the world are lifting interest rates at an aggressive clip as rapid inflation persists and seeps into a broad array of ...