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Wall Street steadies ahead of layoffs and inflation data

Wall Street steadies ahead of layoffs and inflation data

Wall Street was holding steady early Thursday ahead of the government’s latest data release on the labor market, a day after a private survey showed that the U.S. economy lost jobs last month. Fu...

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Chinese national named as suspect in Indonesian radioactive contamination probe

Chinese national named as suspect in Indonesian radioactive contamination probe

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities on Thursday named a Chinese executive of a metal smelting company as a suspect in a cesium-137 contamination case that resulted in the recall of so...

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One Tech Tip: Up your Christmas shopping game with AI tools

One Tech Tip: Up your Christmas shopping game with AI tools

Shopping assistant chatbots were a novelty a year ago. Now, they’re everywhere. After rolling out AI-powered assistants, online retailers and tech companies have been adding more artificial intel...

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WhatsApp faces European antitrust investigation over artificial intelligence

WhatsApp faces European antitrust investigation over artificial intelligence

LONDON (AP) — WhatsApp faces an antitrust investigation in the European Union, where regulators said Thursday that they’re looking into the messaging service’s artificial intelligence policy. The...

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NASCAR accused of being a monopolistic bully in federal antitrust case

NASCAR accused of being a monopolistic bully in federal antitrust case

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Front Row Motorsports owner Bob Jenkins was back on the stand Thursday to testify on the fourth day of the explosive antitrust case that accuses NASCAR of being a monopolist...

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Putin says there are points he can’t agree to in the US proposal to end Russia’s war against Ukraine

Putin says there are points he can’t agree to in the US proposal to end Russia’s war against Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that some proposals in a U.S. plan to end the war in Ukraine are unacceptable to the Kremlin, indicating that any deal is still some way off despite intense s...

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