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Sep 23, 2018
The U.S. cable giant won a rare auction held by British regulators with a bid of $39 billion. Comcast hopes acquiring Sky will help it compete with online streaming services Netflix and Amazon.
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Sep 22, 2018
What's behind these seismic shifts? Analysts point to major beverage makers' interest in the industry — and investors' hopes for Canada's upcoming legalization of marijuana.
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Sep 21, 2018
The complaint, filed on behalf of Alyssa Gilliam, claims Walmart failed to assign pregnant employees to light duty to save them from heavy lifting, as it does for workers with other disabilities.
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Sep 21, 2018
The U.S. imposed sanctions after China's military bought new fighter jets and a surface-to-air missile system. Trade and military ties are increasing between Russia and China.
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Sep 21, 2018
Rents in America are leveling off. At last!
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Sep 21, 2018
Two Asian-American men made a fake poster and hung it up at McDonald's. The company plans to feature more Asian-Americans in its marketing, and cut each of the guys a $25,000 check.
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Sep 21, 2018
British Prime Minister Theresa May's hopes of persuading her peers in the European Union to keep the U.K. in the bloc's single market were dashed at an informal summit in Germany.
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Sep 21, 2018
The Japanese are eating less rice. But prices are now so high that they are buying imported race, rather than the home-grown version. It's also a story of tariffs, subsidies and incentives.
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Sep 21, 2018
Heading into midterm elections, pressure is on for governments and campaigns to secure elections. But what about the companies who make the machines and print the ballots?
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Sep 20, 2018
The first and second bags will each cost $5 more, going up to $30 and $40. Delta, United and JetBlue have also announced increases.
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Sep 20, 2018
In a recent letter, Sen. Ron Wyden said some senators and Senate staff members were warned by a major tech company "that their personal email accounts were targeted by foreign government hackers."
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Sep 20, 2018
Tech Bureau Corp., which owns the Zaif cryptocurrency exchange, says the security breach occurred last week, and was discovered several days later.
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Sep 20, 2018
Why boom and bust is part and parcel of the emerging economic experience.
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Sep 20, 2018
British Prime Minister Theresa May appealed to her European counterparts, trying to preserve Britain's access to the EU's single market after the Brexit. But EU leaders are playing hardball.
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Sep 20, 2018
The money-laundering accusations are related to the so-called 1MDB scandal, in which billions of dollars allegedly went missing from a state fund.
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Sep 20, 2018
The Cates family has been turning excess wine grapes into raisins as a way to reduce food waste. Since last year's devastating fires in California's wine-growing region, they've expanded.
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Sep 20, 2018
The CBC and the Toronto Star has reported that live-event box office behemoth Ticketmaster recruits professional "scalpers" into a program through which it could benefit by double-dipping on fees.
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Sep 20, 2018
The CBC and the Toronto Star has reported that the live-event box office behemoth recruits professional scalpers into a resale program, through which Ticketmaster benefits from double-dipping on fees.
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Sep 20, 2018
After Florence, homeowners will rely on insurance to rebuild. But as climate change exacerbates natural disasters, there are questions over who will bear the brunt of bills in the future.
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Sep 20, 2018
As the risks of disasters grow, the insurance industry is adapting with them — and consumer advocates and others fear that the brunt of the bills will increasingly hit low-income homeowners.
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Sep 19, 2018
A report released Wednesday by the Energy Information Administration announced that African Americans, Hispanics and people with children were most impacted.
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Sep 19, 2018
Rep. Chris Collins was indicted on insider trading charges in August and suspended his campaign. Now he's running again, saying "the stakes are too high" to allow a Democrat to win.
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Sep 19, 2018
We hear a lot about the effects of the financial crisis on the economy and markets, but what about the lasting effects it had on our psyches?
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Sep 19, 2018
With the trade tensions on the rise again, Apple has a lot at stake, with its money-making iPhone assembled completely in China. So far, the tech darling has managed to navigate the dispute unscathed.
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Sep 19, 2018
At the World Food Programme's Innovation Accelerator, teams test out new proposals to stop hunger. Anyone can submit. And September deadlines are coming up.
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Sep 19, 2018
The trade war between Washington and Beijing has dealt a big blow to American soybean farmers, who depend heavily on the Chinese market.
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Sep 18, 2018
Tesla says it handed over documents after CEO Elon Musk announced he would take Tesla private. Investigators might scrutinize the company's accounting practices and whether investors were misled.
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Sep 18, 2018
The proposal to reduce limits on methane emissions from oil and gas operations on public land is the latest move to roll back Obama-era climate regulations.
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Sep 18, 2018
The complaint, filed Tuesday, says 10 businesses prevented women from receiving employment opportunities on the website. It also accused Facebook of excluding women in its own company.
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Sep 18, 2018
Unfinished 737s are stacking up on the tarmac outside of a Boeing plant near Seattle as the supply chain struggles to keep up with demand. The company is calling back retired workers to help finish putting the planes together.
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Sep 18, 2018
As the Federal Reserve considers whether or not to raise interest rates, they have a growing complication to factor in: raising interest rates doesn't seem to have the same effect on the economy that it used to.
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Sep 18, 2018
China is retaliating against the latest round of U.S. tariffs, targeting $60 billion worth of American goods, including agricultural products, chemicals and machinery. China will now be imposing penalties on most of the American products that enter the country.
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Sep 18, 2018
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with David French of the National Retail Federation, about how the Trump administration's latest round of tariffs will affect consumers and the prices they pay.
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Sep 18, 2018
The availability of work — the availability of jobs for people who want a job and even for people who didn't know they want a job — continues expanding.
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Sep 18, 2018
Under scrutiny by the New York attorney general, the co-working giant, which has 3,300 U.S. employees, got rid of legal language that restricted where former employees could work.
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Sep 18, 2018
Under scrutiny by the New York attorney general, the co-working giant, which has 3,300 U.S. employees, got rid of legal language that restricted where former employees could work.
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Sep 18, 2018
Hours after President Trump announced tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods, Beijing responded with its own levies on $60 billion worth of U.S. products.
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Sep 18, 2018
Economist David Wessel of the Brookings Institution says that workers in certain industries — like those that depend on steel imports — are "definitely going to feel the pain" of the new tariffs.
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Sep 18, 2018
The Trump administration is imposing $200 billion in new tariffs on China, which plans to retaliate. Steve Inskeep talks to White House adviser Peter Navarro about the escalating trade war.
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Sep 18, 2018
The Trump administration is imposing $200 billion in new tariffs on China, which plans to retaliate. Steve Inskeep talks to White House adviser Peter Navarro about the escalating trade war.
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Sep 18, 2018
President Trump announced Monday that he is ordering 10 percent tariffs on $200 billion worth of imports from China. It's the latest round of an escalating trade dispute between the two countries.
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Sep 18, 2018
With President Trump imposing new tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods, China has promised to retaliate. Steve Inskeep talks to Jake Parker of the U.S.-China Business Council about what to expect.
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Sep 18, 2018
When it comes to getting help navigating a natural disaster, there's so much technology available, the options are almost overwhelming. What works?
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Sep 18, 2018
Researchers studied nearly 2 million art auction sales and found paintings by women fetched less money than paintings by men. Disparities that plague parts of the economy also affect the art world.
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Sep 18, 2018
A Senate panel will hear from the woman who's accused the Supreme Court nominee of assaulting her. Trump orders new tariffs on China. A deal is reached to forestall an assault on a Syrian province.
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Sep 18, 2018
Yusaku Maezawa would be the first person since 1972 to travel around the moon and the first-ever private citizen to do it. He was introduced at SpaceX headquarters near Los Angeles Monday night.
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Sep 17, 2018
The president announced a new round of tariffs against Chinese imports — 10 percent duties on $200 billion worth of goods, including hundreds of consumer items. The tariffs go into effect on Sept. 24.
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Sep 17, 2018
President Trump announced the U.S. will impose 10 percent tariffs on $200 billion worth of imports from China. It's the latest round of an escalating trade dispute between the two countries.
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Sep 17, 2018
Clowns and clowning have been suffering from a chronic branding crisis for decades. Can they fix it?
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Sep 16, 2018
Almost eight months after Meredith finalized its purchase of Time Inc., the publishing giant says it reached a deal to sell Time magazine to tech billionaire Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne Benioff.
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Sep 16, 2018
Cheap knock-offs don't provide anywhere near the protection or durability of the products they replace. And most riders won't be able to tell the difference between real and counterfeit helmets.
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Sep 15, 2018
On the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Sheila Bair, the former FDIC chair who sounded an early warning about the financial crisis.
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Sep 15, 2018
Ten years after the Great Recession, we look back at autoworkers in the St. Louis area and talk about how it altered their lives and changed their futures.
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Sep 15, 2018
New Bern, N.C., is dealing with flooding and clean-up from Hurricane Florence. Many homes and businesses have no power, but one business is open: a favorite local restaurant, and people are flocking in.
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Sep 15, 2018
Chicago's Lincoln Towing Service is so notorious for wrongly towing away cars that it's been immortalized in song. This week, the Illinois Commerce Commission revoked Lincoln's license.
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Sep 15, 2018
NPR's Scott Simon marks the 10th anniversary of the failure of Lehman Brothers with former Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who helped craft post-crisis rules.
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Sep 15, 2018
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with The Hollywood Reporter's Kim Masters about CBS and the latest updates on ongoing sexual misconduct and bullying allegations there.
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Sep 14, 2018
In the midst of a deepening economic crisis, a reporter's dilemma.
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Sep 14, 2018
On the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Neil Barofsky, the financial crimes lawyer who oversaw TARP, the $700-billion program created to shore up the battered banking system.
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Sep 14, 2018
It used to be the military that ruled advanced logistics, but they've become a core value for big business. Companies like Disney and others may have unique applications that can help emergency planners.
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Sep 14, 2018
The traditionally anti-union Tronc newspaper company on Friday agreed to allow journalists at its two Virginia papers to organize, averting the need for a federally overseen vote, organizers tell NPR.
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Sep 14, 2018
In a stern letter to the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mick Mulvaney, Senate Democrats demanded evidence that he is safeguarding student borrowers.
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Sep 14, 2018
Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy 10 years ago. Steve Inskeep speaks with former Lehman executive Scott Freidheim, who says the government could have saved the company and weakened the recession.
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Sep 14, 2018
Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy 10 years ago. Steve Inskeep speaks with former Lehman executive Scott Freidheim, who says the government could have saved the company and weakened the recession.
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Sep 14, 2018
It's been 10 years since the United States' financial crisis began. David Wessel of the Brookings Institution talks with Steve Inskeep about what's changed since the crisis and what hasn't.
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Sep 13, 2018
The risk of hurricanes in North Carolina hasn't stopped developers from building along the coast. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to the Institute of Marine Sciences Director Rick Luettich at the University of North Carolina.
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Sep 13, 2018
NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Cardiff Garcia, host of the economics podcast The Indicator about how people who lived through the financial crisis — and suffered from it — changed their behavior.
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Sep 13, 2018
When any part of the country prepares for a natural disaster like the impending Hurricane Florence, many people spring into action. You've got local first responders, Coast Guard, FEMA. And then ... there are the retail stores. Companies like Walmart, Home Depot, Walgreens have become a major part of the nation's emergency planning process.
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Sep 13, 2018
Demand for Japanese-grown rice is falling. But prices are still going up.
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Sep 13, 2018
Federal officials will allow private Medicare insurance plans to require patients who are candidates for certain expensive drugs to try cheaper drugs first.
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Sep 13, 2018
The promotion reflects the increasingly prominent role that Mayor plays in the company. But it doesn't indicate significant changes to the division of responsibilities of Mayor and CEO Jarl Mohn.
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Sep 13, 2018
These days it's rare for Turkish officials to contradict President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has vowed not to raise rates. But that's what happened Thursday, in an urgent bid to save a deflating lira.
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Sep 13, 2018
In the next few months, Alabama plans to allow certified professional midwives to deliver babies again, by starting to license them.
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Sep 13, 2018
At the Big Iron Farm Show in North Dakota, the usual concerns about crop yields have been heightened by another big worry.
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Sep 13, 2018
At the Big Iron Farm Show in North Dakota, the usual concerns about crops have been heightened by another big worry: A trade war with China that's already driven soybean prices down sharply.
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Sep 12, 2018
A lawsuit says Facebook is misleading advertisers about just how effective it is. Facebook, which makes billions from ads, says it can't guarantee that all of them will reach their intended targets.
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Sep 12, 2018
A lawsuit says Facebook is misleading advertisers about just how effective it is. Facebook, which makes billions from ads, says it can't guarantee that all of them will reach their intended targets.
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Sep 12, 2018
Massachusetts planned to exclude expensive drugs that weren't proven to work better than existing alternatives from its Medicaid plan. Medicaid drug spending had doubled in five years.
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Sep 12, 2018
The focus heading into Apple's event was on its new iPhones, but it also unveiled a redesigned Apple Watch with a sensor allowing users to take an electrocardiogram they can share with their doctor.
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Sep 12, 2018
Health insurance giant Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee will stop covering OxyContin prescriptions next year. Instead, they'll promote the prescribing of two "abuse deterrent" alternatives.
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Sep 12, 2018
Italians coined the words "espresso" and "cappuccino" and think of themselves as the custodians of top quality coffee. So the arrival of the first Starbucks in Milan has been met with skepticism and alarm — but also curiosity.
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Sep 12, 2018
Embattled drugmaker Purdue Pharma defends OxyContin as some insurers are dropping the drug in favor of other abuse-deterrent opioid painkillers.
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Sep 12, 2018
Why free tuition may make for better politics than economics.
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Sep 12, 2018
CBS said Fager's exit was not directly related to allegations that he had ignored complaints about harassment from a number of women, but instead that he had "violated company policy."
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Sep 12, 2018
An app service known as Aira is connecting blind and visually impaired grocery shoppers with sighted guides that help them navigate the aisles at Wegmans through their smartphones.
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Sep 12, 2018
There goes (varoom! varoom!) that leather-seated (thphhhhhh!) 4G-connected king cab F-150 (rahghhh!) around the bend (brummmmmmmmmmmmmmm)…
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Sep 12, 2018
The very first Apple computer — an Apple-1 — was really only a circuit board. But for computer geeks and tech-lovers, that board could become a collectors item when it goes up for auction.
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Sep 12, 2018
We hear a lot about robots eventually taking over jobs in manufacturing, but automation has already hit the service industry. The cashier who takes your order at McDonald's could soon be replaced.
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Sep 12, 2018
President Trump and former President Obama both claim credit for the good economy. Democrats argue that Trump inherited an economy that was already strong while Republicans insist he turned it around.
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Sep 11, 2018
MGM Resorts International said it would give $500 to any charity connected to the deadly concert shooting for people who authorize their lawyers to accept legal notice of the company's lawsuit.
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Sep 11, 2018
In a letter obtained by NPR, the Pentagon says it hasn't gotten "official notification" about a Trump administration plan to weaken the enforcement of a law protecting troops from predatory creditors.
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Sep 11, 2018
In a letter obtained by NPR, the Pentagon says it hasn't gotten "official notification" about a Trump administration plan to weaken the enforcement of a law protecting troops from predatory creditors.
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Sep 11, 2018
People lie when they're looking for a mate online. Today on the Indicator: the lies we tell online, and how often we tell them.
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Sep 11, 2018
Attorney General Xavier Becerra is calling on the Justice Department to invite Democrats to the Sept. 25 meeting focused on social media and tech companies or risk proving the event's political bent.
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Sep 11, 2018
Attorney General Xavier Becerra is calling on the Justice Department to invite Democrats to the Sept. 25 meeting focused on social media and tech companies or risk proving the event's political bent.
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Sep 11, 2018
IKEA is teaming with a 3D printing medical company — you go into your local IKEA, sit on a machine that takes a scan of your behind and turns that scan into a chair seat that fits your bottom.
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Sep 11, 2018
Is the economy reaping the rewards of trends from the Obama era? On Monday, the White House took credit for a strong American economy.
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Sep 10, 2018
The Fort Belknap Indian Community and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe contend there was no effort to study how the 1,200-mile pipeline project could affect their water systems and sacred lands.
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Sep 10, 2018
NPR's Audie Cornish talks to The New Yorker's Evan Osnos about his new profile of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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Sep 10, 2018
CEO Les Moonves has left CBS. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks to Wall Street Journal media reporter Keach Hagey about how this is affecting the broadcasting giant.
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