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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Turkish PM says tapes of talk with son a fabrication
By Samia Nakhoul and Nick Tattersall, ReutersANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's Prime Minister accused political enemies of hacking encrypted state communications to fake a phone conversation suggesting he warned his son to hide large sums of money...
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The College Failure That Costs Taxpayers $12B a Year
By Richard Vedder, The Fiscal TimesCritics of American higher education usually focus on the deficiencies of college graduates: For example, their critical thinking isn't much better than that of college freshmen, or they increasingly...
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Budget cuts to slash U.S. Army to smallest since before World War Two
By Reuters) By David Alexander and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Monday it would shrink the U.S. Army to pre-World War Two levels, eliminate the popular A-10 aircraft and reduce...
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Global Dividends Surpass $1 Trillion for First Time
By Jenny Cosgrave, CNBCThe world's largest listed companies paid out more than $1 trillion in dividends for the first time, a new report shows. Investors were awarded $1.027 trillion of dividends last year, as pay-outs...
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Brazil presses EU for undersea cable to skirt U.S. links
By Robin Emmott and Francesco Guarascio, ReutersBRUSSELS (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff pressed ahead on Monday with plans to lay an undersea communications cable directly to Europe to reduce Brazil's reliance on the United States...