Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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OK Google, Here’s Why Men and Women Are Not the Same
By Liz PeekMen and women are different. I probably won’t lose my job for saying that, but Google engineer James Damore did. The Google fracas is not just about free speech; it is about the ability of the...
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Want to Protect Earth From Aliens? NASA Is Hiring
By Dave Mosher, Business InsiderUS government scientists work hard to protect the public. Some study infectious diseases and effective treatments. Others ensure that drugs, food, vehicles, or consumer products live up to their...
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Elon Musk: Here's How We Can Put a Million People on Mars
By Dave Mosher, Business InsiderIn September 2016, tech mogul Elon Musk walked onto a stage in Guadalajara, Mexico, and laid out his vision to colonize Mars with his company SpaceX. The talk was bold for a couple of reasons. First...
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Here’s Why Elon Musk Holds the Secret to Productivity Gains
By Liz PeekTo those Americans who envy China’s grandiose multi-trillion-dollar Silk Road ambitions, console yourselves: we have Elon Musk. China may have a bigger checkbook, the U.S. may be sinking under red...
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5 Green Energy Technologies That Could Change the World
By Zainab Calcuttawala , Oilprice.comInnovations in energy storage, smart grid, and electricity generation technologies will affect every part of the source-to-consumer supply chain for powering the planet. Energy storage tech improves...
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Self-Drivings Cars May Change Where You Want to Live
By Deborah Findling, CNBCMenlo Ventures managing director Venky Ganesan says that urban spaces will change dramatically once self-driving cars become widespread. "The average house is roughly 3,000 sq ft and it's been going...
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Remember Google Glass? It's Not a Flop After All
By Christina Farr, CNBCGoogle Glass isn't dead. In fact, it's a growing business. That's according to developers who license the smart glasses technology from Google Glass' enterprise-focused " Glass at Work " program...
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Tesla Is Now Worth More Than Ford as It Shares Surge Higher
By Robert Ferris, CNBCTesla shares hit an all-time high on Monday, after the electric carmaker announced strong first-quarter delivery numbers Sunday that outpaced analysts' expectations. Tesla shares surged as high as $...
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Why China Is a Big Part of Tesla’s Future
By Evelyn ChengElon Musk's Tesla is a growing player in China, where the global fight to develop electric, self-driving cars is raging hot. Hong-Kong traded Tencent, a company best known for its WeChat messaging...
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The New Tesla Model 3 Could be the Safest Car Ever
By Robert Ferris, CNBCTesla's Model 3 sedan could end up being significantly safer than the average car currently on the road, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas. And customer preferences suggest that level of...
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Should We Have Laws to Control Robots Before They Control Us?
By Peter Kelley, FuturityRobotics is shaping up to be the next transformative technology of our time, says legal expert Ryan Calo, who argues in a new paper that we need laws to deal with the rise of robotics and artificial...
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You Won’t Believe How Much a Cyberwar Really Costs
By Patrick Tucker, Defense OneOn Monday, the Italian company Hacking Team, which produces secret cyber weapons for law-enforcement and government clients around the world, became the victim of an embarrassing public disclosure:...
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Why Twitter Is a Minefield for the GOP
By Andrew LumbyBobby Jindal seems like a perfectly good guy. He probably even sorts his recycling. To say he’s politically unpopular, though, would be an understatement. As governor of Louisiana, he is currently...
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How Algorithms Can Beat Back Prejudice in Companies and Courts
By Millie DentThe way the justice system sets bail for defendants is far from a hard science, and the numbers bear that out: African Americans between the ages of 18 and 29, for example, are given much higher bail...
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Here’s How Lego Patented Its Mini-Figures – and Won
By Enrico Bonadio, The ConversationLego bricks and figures are iconic toys that keep millions of children (and a fair few adults) around the world entertained. Their commercial success worldwide has triggered many attempts by...