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What a Federal Reserve rate cut means for your finances

What a Federal Reserve rate cut means for your finances

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday for the second time since September. Before that, it had gone nine months without a cut. The federa...

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Pfizer sues to stop rival bid for drugmaker Metsera by Denmark’s Novo Nordisk

Pfizer sues to stop rival bid for drugmaker Metsera by Denmark’s Novo Nordisk

Pfizer is suing over some unsolicited competition in its nearly $5 billion bid to buy the drugmaker Metsera. New York-based Pfizer said Friday after markets closed that it was suing Metsera and a ...

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Powder supplements sold at Sam’s Club tied to salmonella outbreak

Powder supplements sold at Sam’s Club tied to salmonella outbreak

At least 11 people have been sickened, including three who were hospitalized, with salmonella infections linked to powder supplements sold at Sam’s Club stores nationwide and online, federal healt...

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Tech giants announce $7B data center, Michigan’s first hyperscale campus

Tech giants announce $7B data center, Michigan’s first hyperscale campus

Michigan is poised to receive its first hyperscale data center after three tech giants revealed themselves Thursday as the developers behind a proposed 1-gigawatt-plus AI project on farmland in Sa...

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Air traffic controller shortages lead to broader US flight delays as shutdown nears one-month mark

Air traffic controller shortages lead to broader US flight delays as shutdown nears one-month mark

Continued staffing shortages in air traffic control facilities around the country were again causing delays at airports on Friday as the government shutdown neared the one-month mark. U.S. Transpo...

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SNAP has provided help buying groceries for more than 60 years

SNAP has provided help buying groceries for more than 60 years

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is a major piece of the U.S. social safety net used by nearly 42 million, or about 1 in 8 Americans, to help buy groceries. Originally known...

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