Business
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U.S. Weighs Russian Oil Ban as Gas Prices Surge and Ukraine War Grows
WASHINGTON — President Biden came under increasing pressure on Monday to ban Russian oil imports into the United States, forcing the ...
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Switzerland joined in sanctions, but Russia’s oil, metals and grains still trade there.
ZURICH — Swiss officials were applauded last week when they broke with the country’s tradition of neutrality by joining the United States, the ...
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Oil Prices Jump as U.S. Discusses Russian Import Ban
The price of oil jumped again on Sunday as the United States considers an embargo on Russian imports in response to the war in Ukraine. The cost ...
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Gas Prices in U.S. Climb Above $4 a Gallon
Gas prices in the United States are climbing to their highest level since 2008, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupts the global energy market ...
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Walter R. Mears, ‘Boys on the Bus’ Campaign Reporter, Dies at 87
Walter R. Mears, a longtime reporter at The Associated Press whose on-the-spot analyses of American politics won him a Pulitzer Prize and a role ...
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Mastercard and Visa suspend operations in Russia.
Mastercard and Visa said they would suspend operations in Russia, essentially severing cardholders there from transactions outside the country in ...
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Remote Work Lets Moms-to-Be Act More Like Dads
For the past nine months, I have been pregnant. But I have not — for the most part — been pregnant at work. In the beginning, when I felt ...
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You Quit Your Job, but You Still Need a Retirement Plan
When she realized she wanted to quit her job at a San Francisco software company, Anna Rider was taking care of two babies: a food blog that she ...
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Advertising Acts as Another Vehicle of Protest to Ukraine War
As western social media sites tried to block misleading ads coming out of Russia this week, Rob Blackie was trying to sneak ads in. Mr. Blackie ...
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Hollywood Bets Big on the Bad Entrepreneur
“I’m not a bad guy,” the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) insists at the end of “The Social Network,” the 2010 film that ...