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Oct 18, 2021
The country's growth was weighed down in the third quarter, hitting the slowest rate in a year.
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Oct 17, 2021
The country's growth was weighed down in the third quarter, hitting the slowest rate in a year.
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Oct 17, 2021
The labor activism runs the gamut of American industry, powered by the same grievances about wages, benefits and quality of life driving the Great Resignation.
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Oct 17, 2021
Workers had raised issues with low pay from streaming services and work bleeding over into their evenings and weekends.
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Oct 16, 2021
The announced return of the four museum pieces, which comes after an investigation by The Post and ICIJ into The Pandora Papers, was welcomed by Cambodian officials who are seeking the return of countless Khmer civilization relics.
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Oct 16, 2021
His short, flexible board made catching a wave accessible to millions.
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Oct 16, 2021
A new update will bring a lot of a new content to the game after a dry spell.
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Oct 16, 2021
How "Wild Bill" Janklow, a very creative governor of South Dakota, built a financial center catering to the world's most powerful banks and wealthiest clients.
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Oct 16, 2021
Uncertainty obscures the path forward. Here's a breakdown of what's happening, in five charts.
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Oct 16, 2021
Consumers' discomfort with rising oil and gas prices doesn't bode well for what might be a costly shift to solar and wind power.
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Oct 16, 2021
Netflix said the employee leaked "confidential" and "commercially sensitive" information following backlash from the LGBTQ community over recent jokes from Chappelle that critics have called transphobic.
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Oct 16, 2021
Workers suddenly have a lot more leverage. Here are three ways to do a negotiate a better salary.
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Oct 16, 2021
The West Virginia Democrat has expressed fierce opposition to the White House's proposed Clean Electricity Performance Program.
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Oct 16, 2021
It's not nearly as awkward as it sounds and makes us feel more connected. And best of all, other people are actually interested in what we have to say.
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Oct 15, 2021
American families and businesses are changing their habits as they increasingly believe high prices are here to stay.
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Oct 15, 2021
Executive Editor Sally Buzbee's letter about the Pandora Papers and The Washington Post's findings
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Oct 15, 2021
And should we?
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Oct 15, 2021
From Scrabble tournaments to the New York Times crossword, word games grapple with new standards for offensive terms and racial slurs.
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Oct 15, 2021
The Wall Street giant reported total revenue for the first nine months that was greater than any previous 12-month total and blew through third-quarter expectations.
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Oct 15, 2021
American families and businesses are changing their habits as they increasingly believe high prices are here to stay.
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Oct 15, 2021
Years of negotiations have produced an agreement to overhaul the global tax system in ways that will change where and how some of the world's largest companies are taxed. Getting almost 140 nations on board was a huge breakthrough, but the fight isn't over.
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Oct 15, 2021
Apple on Thursday fired Janneke Parrish, who helped raise awareness about workplace misconduct allegations at the company.
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Oct 15, 2021
Becoming the new Switzerland is no way to display global leadership.
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Oct 15, 2021
When Chancellor Angela Merkel steps down after 16 years in power, Germany's status in Europe and the world will be on the line.
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Oct 15, 2021
Many of the country's debt-laden developers believe they are immortal because Beijing hasn't proven that it's serious about reforms.
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Oct 15, 2021
The latest burst of recriminations directed at social media emphasizes the harm that can be done to teenagers. Frances Haugen, a former Facebook Inc. product manager turned whistle-blower, says executives at Facebook are aware of research showing the company's Instagram photo-sharing platform in particular can be detrimental to teenage girls with body-image issues. Even before the pandemic increased the time most people spend online, many parents worried about attention-sapping "screen time" war
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Oct 15, 2021
The 2015 agreement is dead and Tehran isn't intimidated by the White House's vague threats.
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Oct 15, 2021
American families and businesses are changing their habits as they increasingly believe high prices are here to stay.
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Oct 15, 2021
When doctors recommend untested remedies to healthy patients, they sometimes get the "better safe than sorry" equation mixed up.
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Oct 15, 2021
There is a limit to how much federal taxpayers should have to spend to fight fires and cull trees so that well-off Californians can live near hiking trails.
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Oct 15, 2021
Its doorbell camera can pick up neighborhood conversations at the end of a driveway by default. That needs to change.
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Oct 15, 2021
The massive Twitch leak revealed a "do not ban" list of streamers, but it's not as simple as it seems.
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Oct 15, 2021
Take advice from the experts about how to beat inflation or even benefit from it.
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Oct 15, 2021
A Q&A with Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson on how he turned his state into a hub for technology and why expanding computer science education is critical to national security.
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Oct 15, 2021
The mayor is right to stand her ground against threats to reduce the force by half in the midst of escalating crime.
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Oct 15, 2021
The program hopes to groom cybersecurity specialists with real-time competitions to better fight hackers.
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Oct 15, 2021
Take advice from the experts about how to beat inflation or even benefit from it.
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Oct 15, 2021
HOUSE OF THE WEEK | A starter home designed by the celebrated architect has been expanded and renovated.
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Oct 15, 2021
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett wants the Shin Bet to deal with spiraling violence. That's a path fraught with risk.
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Oct 15, 2021
A wave of firings at Turkey's central bank is bad news for the lira and whatever shred of credibility the institution has left, as it swings between fighting inflation and stoking it on the president's whim.
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Oct 15, 2021
Difficulties at a British gas supplier are a blip compared to its giant copper and coal profits
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Oct 15, 2021
Choosing languages may soon be as easy as changing the channel. But a lot more could get transformed along the way.
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Oct 15, 2021
Classifying energy should be left to capital markets, not government bureaucrats.
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Oct 15, 2021
This year's shopping holiday may be boring, as supply shortages and increasing costs force stores to cut down on promotions.
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Oct 15, 2021
Forbes lists Trump as having a current net worth of $2.5 billion. In 2011, Trump was listed as having a net worth of $2.9 billion, which is $400 million more than he is worth now. And adjusted for inflation that $2.9 billion would be worth more than $3.5 billion in current dollars — over $1 billion more than Forbes says he's worth now.
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Oct 15, 2021
If 2020 was a year for worrying about pandemic-induced economic collapse and the first half of 2021 was a time for worrying about post-pandemic inflation, for a growing number of traders the new cause of anxiety is a word that hasn't been heard much since the 1970s: stagflation.
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Oct 15, 2021
A surprise election result and a president sidelined in hospital with chronic health problems have combined to make the formation of the Czech Republic's next government particularly complex and hard to predict.
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Oct 15, 2021
From new vaccine rules for food halls and malls to the central bank's surprise tightening, Singapore is inching forward in its Covid response toward a new normal.
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Oct 15, 2021
The United Nations has convened world leaders many times before to discuss climate change, dating to the 1990s. The next meeting, scheduled for November in Glasgow, may be the most important ever. U.S. President Joe Biden's climate envoy, John Kerry, says COP26 will be the last chance for the world to avoid climate disaster.
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Oct 15, 2021
The stock trading numbers from U.S. banks seem like a bad sign for the market shares of rivals such as Credit Suisse, UBS and Barclays.
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Oct 15, 2021
The pandemic threw the vital but usually humdrum world of logistics into a tailspin, creating shortages of masks and vaccine vials, semiconductors, plastic polymers and bicycles. The shipping system underpinning globalization — production on one side of the planet, connected to consumers on the other — proved too rigid to absorb the rolling tremors from Covid-19, or to recover quickly from the jolts to consumer demand and the labor force. That triggered supply-chain disruptions, idled factories
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Oct 15, 2021
Avoiding hacks isn't always possible, but there are ways to mitigate the damage
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Oct 15, 2021
The Washington Post's picks of noteworthy residences on the market.
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Oct 15, 2021
TOWN SQUARE | The apartments have hardwood floors, granite counters, stainless-steel appliances, a white tile backsplash, light gray Shaker-style kitchen cabinets, matte black hardware and a washer and dryer.
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Oct 15, 2021
It's unclear whether Beijing has the appetite for much more pain as the impact of power shortages forces policy makers to rethink the speed of the nation's energy transition.
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Oct 15, 2021
Microsoft will shut down its LinkedIn service inside China after facing criticism for censoring posts, ending the last major U.S. social-networking site's presence in the country.
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Oct 15, 2021
Either way, it hasn't really earned its place as a lightning rod in the debate over pandemic policy.
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Oct 15, 2021
BUYING NEW | Beacon Park's community of elevator units was a "total game changer" for one buyer.
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Oct 15, 2021
The stand down is yet another sign of the complexities of human space flight and comes as a number of companies have been working on flying paying customers to either the edge of space or to orbit.
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Oct 15, 2021
The shortage of slaughterhouse workers has created what Britain's pig lobby calls its biggest crisis in over two decades, with roughly 120,000 pigs waiting to be slaughtered.
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Oct 14, 2021
The delta variant and supply chain backlogs have kept prices elevated. There is no clear answer on when that will change.
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Oct 14, 2021
Initial jobless claims fell by 36,000 from the previous week's revised level to 293,000, federal data shows.
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Oct 14, 2021
The delta variant and supply chain backlogs have kept prices elevated. There's no clear answer for when that will change.
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Oct 14, 2021
The delta variant and supply chain backlogs have kept prices elevated. There's no clear answer for when that will change.
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Oct 14, 2021
Choosing languages may soon be as easy as changing the channel. But a lot more could get transformed along the way.
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Oct 14, 2021
The walkout is the latest by an emboldened labor movement and affects 14 plants in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Colorado and Georgia.
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Oct 14, 2021
The 30-year fixed-rate average climbed above 3 percent, increasing to its highest level in six months.
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Oct 14, 2021
The walkout is the latest by an emboldened labor movement and affects 14 plants in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Colorado and Georgia.
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Oct 14, 2021
A record number of workers are quitting or taking early retirement from jobs where they feel disrespected and burned out in what is being called "The Great Resignation." Here's how they are getting by financially.
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Oct 14, 2021
Initial jobless claims fell by 36,000 from the previous week's revised level to 293,000, federal data show.
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Oct 14, 2021
The U.S. lead follows China's crackdown on bitcoin mining in recent months.
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Oct 14, 2021
A record number of workers are quitting or taking early retirement from jobs where they feel disrespected and burned out in what is being called "The Great Resignation." Here's how they are getting by financially.
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Oct 14, 2021
The walkout affects 14 plants in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Colorado and Georgia.
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Oct 14, 2021
The pandemic has been tough for many Americans but especially on women resulting in what's being called the 'She-cession.' Here's a rule-of-thumb to get back on your financial feet and grow your wealth.
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Oct 14, 2021
Economic data from September underscored how susceptible supply chains and the overall economy remain to the pandemic.
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Oct 14, 2021
The company provided a window into how the delta variant has hindered travel and what airlines might expect in the coming months.
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Oct 14, 2021
Administration officials promise a "90-day sprint" to clear a path for cargo.
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Oct 13, 2021
The two sides remain far apart but say they will continue negotiating in an attempt to avoid the work stoppage.
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Oct 13, 2021
Waves of Americans are leaving their jobs in the "Great Resignation." Here's why.
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Oct 13, 2021
The voluntary guidelines create new limits for processed, packaged and prepared foods, intended to curtail Americans' salt consumption by 12 percent.
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Oct 13, 2021
Economic data from September underscored how susceptible supply chains and the overall economy remain to the pandemic.
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Oct 13, 2021
The British e-commerce company has to do a lot more to reassure investors about its SoftBank-tied Ingenuity business.
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Oct 13, 2021
China Evergrande Group is quickly becoming the biggest financial worry in a country with no shortage of them. Fears of a default by the developer, with $300 billion in liabilities and links to myriad banks, have roiled global markets as investors assess the potential impact on the financial system and the broader economy. Evergrande's stock and bond prices have cratered, and it's far from clear how Hui Ka Yan, the billionaire owner who's survived many crises in the past, will pull through this t
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Oct 13, 2021
The actor will join a private space movement that has picked up speed and outpaced NASA.
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Oct 13, 2021
REAL ESTATE MATTERS | We'd suggest you try to work with these board members to convince them that they have nothing to lose by giving you this right. But be kind while doing it, as you are trying to convince them to give you something that you probably are not entitled to.
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Oct 13, 2021
TOWN SQUARE | The apartments have floors that resemble wood, white quartz countertops, porcelain tile floors in the bathroom, stainless-steel appliances, subway tile in the kitchen and bathroom and either white-washed or dark kitchen cabinets.
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Oct 13, 2021
Administration officials promise a "90-day sprint" to clear a path for cargo.
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Oct 13, 2021
The finance industry can't complain about regulators seeing work-from-home as increasing the risk of dodgy dealing.
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Oct 13, 2021
Carrefour has dropped the ball on its third attempted deal in three years. But a tie-up with Auchan may not be as dead as it looks.
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Oct 13, 2021
Disinvestment from polluting companies risks hurting both returns and the planet. Engagement is the better green strategy.
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Oct 12, 2021
When Covid arrived and economies tanked, officials knew what to do. Things are better now — and much harder to navigate, while the risks of a misstep are significant.
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Oct 12, 2021
No country can deleverage in a deflationary environment. If home prices plummet any more, a bailout may be inevitable.
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Oct 12, 2021
Australia, the driest inhabited continent, is repeatedly ravaged by bushfires and floods -- costly, life-claiming disasters that scientists warn have been exacerbated by a warming planet. It's also one of the world's biggest fossil fuel exporters and emitters per capita of greenhouse gases. Yet while most Australians insist they want more action to combat climate change, the country's conservative government -- in power since 2013 -- has resisted moves that might undermine key industries. As thi
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Oct 12, 2021
When Covid arrived and economies tanked, officials knew what to do. Things are better now — and much harder to navigate, while the risks of a misstep are significant.
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Oct 12, 2021
Texas businesses face risk and uncertainty as the state and federal government spar over Covid-19 vaccine mandates for employees. Governor Greg Abbott signed an executive order Oct. 11 outlawing such requirements in the second-largest U.S. state. That immediately set up a clash with President Joe Biden, who issued an executive order Sept. 9 calling for employers with more than 100 workers to require Covid vaccines or weekly testing once the federal workplace health and safety regulator creates f
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Oct 12, 2021
We know pandemic-related job losses were bad for women overall, but a new report from AARP found that things are worse for women over 40. One-quarter of mid-career and older workers have seen their financial situation worsen over the course of the pandemic, the report found.
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Oct 12, 2021
Reviews help people decide how to spend their limited time. But the system around them is busted.
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