By Brendan Kirby, LifeZette White House economic adviser Gary Cohn resigned Tuesday, adding to a recent spate of highly visible staff changes in President Donald Trump’s administration. Cohn went to …
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By Kathryn Blackhurst, LifeZette While other companies connected with the National Rifle Association (NRA) fled after gun control advocates rallied behind the #BoycottNRA movement, FedEx doubled down on its refusal …
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Azar Lauds New Low-Cost Health Care Plans for ‘Forgotten Men and Women’
By Kathryn Blackhurst, LifeZette An estimated “28 million forgotten men and women” who were “shut out of the Obamacare marketplace” will soon have many more health insurance choices thanks to …
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By Michele Blood, LifeZette This is not the verdict real estate developer Gerald Wolkoff was hoping for at all — and it’s almost certainly cringeworthy for many other owners of …
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By Steven Russolillo and Kenan Machado, Wall Street Journal Bitcoin plunged below $8,000 on Friday, extending its sharp rout since the start of the year in a selloff triggered by a widening …
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By Christian Britschgi, Reason Ian Calderon wants restaurateurs to think long and hard before giving you a straw. Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California’s lower house, has introduced a bill to …
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By Tripp Mickle, The Wall Street Journal Apple Inc. AAPL +0.02% said it would pay a one-time tax of $38 billion on its overseas cash holdings and ramp up spending in the U.S., as …
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Facebook, Google Tell Congress They’re Countering Extremists
By John Shinal, CNBC Facebook, Google and Twitter told Congress Wednesday that they’ve gone beyond screening and removing extremist content and are creating more anti-terror propaganda to pre-empt violent messages at the …
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By Fred Imbert andAlexandra Gibbs, CNBC U.S. stocks traded sharply higher as investors chased a market breaking out on better-than-expected earnings and rising economic optimism under President Donald Trump. The Dow …
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By Nathan Bomey, USA Today Walmart is boosting the minimum hourly wage for its U.S. employees to $11 and dishing out bonuses of up to $1,000, crediting President Trump’s tax …