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5 New Roller Coasters to Make You Scream This Summer

5 New Roller Coasters to Make You Scream This Summer

Let the adrenaline flow on coasters that will shoot you high in the air, spin yo...

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White House Cheers Inflation Data While Iran War Sparks New Price Surge

White House Cheers Inflation Data While Iran War Sparks...

The news of an improvement in consumer prices in June came as the U.S. and Iran ...

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Warsh Reiterates Fed’s Pledge to Get Inflation Down but Doesn’t Specify How

Warsh Reiterates Fed’s Pledge to Get Inflation Down but...

Kevin M. Warsh, in his first testimony to Congress as chairman of the Federal Re...

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Data Centers to Add Billions in Power Costs in 13 States

Data Centers to Add Billions in Power Costs in 13 States

A power auction conducted by a giant grid operator is expected to add $6.3 billi...

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Inflation Slowed During Pause in War With Iran

Inflation Slowed During Pause in War With Iran

The Consumer Price Index fell to a 3.5 percent annual increase in June, and pric...

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Trump’s Strait of Hormuz Fee Could Double the Cost of Shipping

Trump’s Strait of Hormuz Fee Could Double the Cost of S...

The potential expense of a 20 percent charge to move oil and other goods through...

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Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Is Challenged in Court by California and 11 Other States

Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Is Challenged in Court by...

The lawsuit, filed by California and 11 other states, argues that the deal would...

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How a Promising Navy Drone Boat Program Got Mired in Politics

How a Promising Navy Drone Boat Program Got Mired in Po...

Navy acquisition reforms upended a $2.1 billion contract competition. When it wa...

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U.S. Workers Are More Productive Than Ever. And That’s Without A.I.

U.S. Workers Are More Productive Than Ever. And That’s ...

Companies have been getting more out of employees for several years. Tight labor...

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China Purges Top Official Over Corruption and Sex Charges

China Purges Top Official Over Corruption and Sex Charges

Ma Xingrui is the third member of the Politburo to be purged since 2022. He once...

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Oil Rises Above $85 a Barrel as Gulf Clash Escalates

Oil Rises Above $85 a Barrel as Gulf Clash Escalates

Brent crude, the international benchmark, breached $85 per barrel for the first ...

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Chai Discovery, an A.I. Drug Start-Up, Raises $400 Million

Chai Discovery, an A.I. Drug Start-Up, Raises $400 Million

The fund-raising values the company at $3.8 billion and underscores investor int...

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Paramount vs. the States

Paramount vs. the States

An effort to block media giant’s planned takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery unde...

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Big Banks Smash Earnings Records, but ‘Tectonic’ Risks Loom

Big Banks Smash Earnings Records, but ‘Tectonic’ Risks ...

The largest banks in the United States collectively raked in tens of billions of...

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Workers on the Move: How Labor Mobility Is Quietly Buffering China's Economy Against Heat-Driven Losses

Workers on the Move: How Labor Mobility Is Quietly Buff...

As global temperatures rise, occupational heat stress is emerging as a major thr...

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Heather Baker Named President of Baylor Scott & White Irving Foundation

Heather Baker Named President of Baylor Scott & White I...

Baylor Scott & White Health, the largest not-for-profit health system in Texas, ...