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It’s impossible to separate the traffic in humans, the traffic in drugs, and the ambitions of Al Qaeda and ISIS. They are all part of the same …

The digital era has changed many aspects of business, including the ease of access to exponential amounts of raw data. The challenge of analyzing it …

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Elon Musk took to Twitter this week to bemoan comments, made by Harvard professor Steven Pinker, that were dismissive of Musk’s many warnings about …

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Amazon will not stock new products from Google’s Nest unit, including a new Nest thermostat and a home security system. Nest, in response, will stop …

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Rick Osterloh’s second stint at Google has been happier than his first. Six years ago, when he first joined the company, it was amid one of the most disastrous acquisitions in its history.In 2012, Google spent $12.5bn (£9bn) on Motorola Mobility, the iconic American mobile phone maker where …

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For months now, much of the media attention on the crypto space has been directed at ebbs and flows in the price of bitcoin on one side, and whiz-bang ICOs on the other.The price of the most valuable cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (specifically the BTC chain), has backpedaled significantly from highs set …

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In the last 20 years, genealogy websites have attracted more than 15 million customers by promising insights into your past. Maybe you’ll uncover a …

Ketamine has been called the biggest thing to happen to psychiatry in 50 years, due to its uniquely rapid and sustained antidepressant effects. It …

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Brigadier General Suheil al-Hassan has won over Putin and played a central role in the assault on eastern Ghouta.BEIRUT—Early on the morning of February 18, Syrian regime forces gathered on a field on the edge of eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held region near Damascus. The sky had just cleared after a …

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The president can’t have it both ways—he’ll have to choose between restricting trade and limiting low-skill immigration.There is a contradiction at the heart of Trumpism’s embrace of protectionism and restrictionism. President Donald Trump often portrays international trade less as a non-zero-sum …

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Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle led the charge to punish Delta, after the Atlanta-based airline ended its affiliation with the NRA.Last weekend, Delta Airlines exercised its constitutional right to speak freely on political issues and to choose with whom it associates by announcing that it would no …

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The president is risking serious economic and political consequences.President Trump just raised the price of cars, beer, vacations, and apartment rentals.That’s not what most headlines say. Those headlines say that Trump will raise tariffs on steel and aluminum. Higher tariffs mean higher prices …

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans in Congress have learned to ignore President Donald Trump’s policy whims, knowing whatever he says one day on guns, immigration or other complicated issues could very well change by the next.But Trump’s decision to seek steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports has …

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Derivatives provided greater visibility into an opaque markets, but there is no rush to embrace them.Last fall, as cryptocurrencies seemed on the brink of a linkage with the traditional financial system, 1 there were predictions of a price explosion along with institutional, regulatory and …

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At his coming-out hearing as chairman of the Federal Reserve on Feb. 27, Jay Powell made all sorts of news in finance-land, including a suggestion …

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Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports have caused international criticism, and sent markets slidingEurope threatens retaliation on motorcycles and bourbon Ex-Trump adviser sold $31m in shares days before tariff announcement Business Today – sign up for our daily email

Hundreds of thousands of Americans were without power and at least eight were dead Saturday after a Nor’easter thrashed the East Coast with heavy winds, rain and snow on Friday.More than a dozen utility companies reported that hundreds of thousands of their customers were affected by the powerful …

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Italians are set to vote after a divisive campaign dominated by concerns over immigration and the economy.Correspondents say it is hard to say who will come out on top in an unpredictable contest.The anti-establishment Five Star Movement, ruling Democratic Party and ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi’s …

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WASHINGTON — George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman, has hovered on the fringes of international diplomacy for three decades. He was a back-channel negotiator with Syria during the Clinton administration, reinvented himself as an adviser to the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates, and …

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In his expanding war over global trade, President Trump has aimed his harshest rhetoric at an unlikely target — the closest U.S. allies.In Twitter posts while at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Saturday, Trump vowed to strike back at European leaders who said they would retaliate for his …

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BEIJING—A month of whirlwind diplomatic efforts by China did little to deter President Donald Trump from escalating his trade offensive, an indication of the rocky road ahead for the world’s two largest economies.Mr. Trump’s pledge on Thursday that the U.S. would slap tariffs on steel and aluminum …

While the superrich hold more than half the wealth, nearly a quarter are in the redWhile politics is no place to get rich, many people may assume …

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Here comes more bone-crushing pain for stock market bulls. Maybe.The global equity market cap is down $6 trillion to $80.6 trillion during the latest …

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We could have been on Mars 30 years ago. At the peak of the Apollo era in the early ’70s, NASA was already planning its next step into the unknown.Its plans included building multiple space stations, continued trips to the Moon, and the first crewed mission to Mars by the 1980s. Can you imagine …

Jared Kushner’s father met with Qatar’s minister of finance last April, to solicit an investment in the family’s distressed asset at 666 Fifth …

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Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration reversed a change made by Chris Christie to New Jersey’s pension system that would have forced state and local …

The ‘Late Show’ host traveled to Washington, D.C. to grill various congressmen about the Trump-Russia investigation. Hilarity ensued.“I believe it’s …

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US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he would impose a 25 per cent import tariff on steel and 10 per cent on aluminium to protect US …

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One of the ironies of trade protectionism is that tariffs and import quotas are what we do to ourselves in times of peace and what foreign nations do …

Trump contacted Republican leaders to cut a tunnel project linking N.Y. and N.J. from a massive spending plan, according to a report.

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