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A yearslong partnership between Narendra Modi’s government and Apple has established the country as a serious rival to China. By Sankalp Phartiyal
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A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement. By Olivia Carville
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Hiut Denim’s production cap was meant to inspire a degrowth movement in business. But first it needed to grow. By JB MacKinnon
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James Fishback isn’t likely to be governing the sunshine state next year, but his strong showing portends difficult choices for Republicans this fall and in 2028. By Max Chafkin
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Concrete makes up half of all man-made stuff on our planet. And its use will double, in part to battle climate threats created by the production of concrete itself. Industry can deliver cleaner versions, but how soon? The answer might lie with four Indonesians from a tiny, disappearing island.
By Ted C. Fishman
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Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg wants America’s war machine to get cozier with companies. The private equity firm he co-founded is building a constellation of next-generation businesses to answer the call. By Caleb Melby
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While startups and supplements are making billions, the healthcare mainstream hasn’t kept pace with women’s midlife needs. By Kristen V Brown
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Dave Ricks steered the 150-year-old drug giant to a $1 trillion market cap. Can he defeat pharma’s boom-and-bust cycle? By Madison Muller and Brad Stone
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A global group of online sadists is pushing kids to harm their pets, their siblings and themselves. The FBI calls it a new wave of terrorism. By Margi Murphy
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They’re everywhere: DIY peptides for losing weight, building muscle, slowing aging, getting tan and general looksmaxxing. Inside a legally ambiguous and medically dubious global supply chain.
By Amanda Mull, Madison Muller and Ashleigh Furlong
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Online casinos were a big driver of the Isle of Man’s economy. Lately, they’ve become a liability. By Jack Adamović Davies
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Tremont, Pennsylvania, is unprepared, underequipped and largely unwilling. The same is true for many of the other places tapped for similar warehouse jails. So far, none of that matters. By Fola Akinnibi
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Community health workers fill the gaps in places without enough doctors and nurses. Trump’s budget cuts are costing them their jobs, putting untold clients at risk. By Megan Greenwell
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A strain with no known treatment or vaccine is spreading fast, and the international system built to contain outbreaks is in crisis. By Jason Gale and Jessica Nix
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The feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge. By Josh Eidelson
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From Iran to Russia to Venezuela, targeted parties tap Erich Ferrari to get off the Treasury Department’s list. By Timothy McLaughlin
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Jassy was once Jeff Bezos’ deputy and the head of Amazon’s cloud computing arm. Five years into his tenure as CEO, he’s killing projects, cutting staff, pleasing Wall Street and steering the everything store through its greatest challenge yet. By Brad Stone and Matt Day
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Mercor is promising to replicate most professional work. It was also co-founded by twentysomethings who previously never held a real job. By Tom Foster
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An excerpt from the forthcoming book Project Maven shows how the US enlisted Silicon Valley in its vision for AI warfare, now playing out in Iran. By Katrina Manson
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An anesthesiologist has spent decades pushing his surgery center toward more transparent prices. Others are now following his lead. By Rowan Moore Gerety
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With sales waning, the business-savvy crime novelist and ex-CEO is doubling down on collaborations. By Vauhini Vara
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The founder of House of Prayer held himself out as a prophet. Former members of the church say he used fundamentalist teachings to manipulate them. By Chris Pomorski
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Gary Brecka worked in insurance and a strip mall wellness clinic. Now he’s at the center of RFK Jr.’s plan to overhaul the American health system. By Ben Stockton
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A vast ecosystem supported by the gig economy has sprung up to clean all that cash.
By Jessica Brice
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CEO Carol Tomé’s plan for prosperity involves more than Amazon deliveries. By Cailley LaPara, Devin Leonard and Kiel Porter
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Attacks from short sellers and the collapse of auto lender Tricolor haven’t slowed down America’s most valuable used-car retailer. By David Welch
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Conceivable’s automated lab has helped bring 19 babies to life. Is it better at IVF than humans are? By Sarah Frier
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Donald Trump’s pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, toppled the capstone of one of the most ambitious narcotics investigations in the history of the Department of Justice. By Monte Reel
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India’s digital revolution has exposed millions to a criminal dystopia. This is the story of a neurologist placed under “digital arrest”; a farmer promised a job that would set him up for life; a young man arranging mule bank accounts; and a newlywed who joins the crypto underworld.
By Natalie Obiko Pearson and Suparna Sharma
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As sales and profits continue to decline, the incoming CEO says the first order of business is to repair the vibe. By Jaewon Kang and Devin Leonard
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How a flair for infomercials, TikTok and an endless stream of whiz-bang home appliances turned SharkNinja into a $6 billion behemoth. By Lily Meier and Shelly Banjo
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The singer has been golfing and trolling his way into the president’s inner circle.
By Ashley Carman and Felix Gillette
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Some users are losing touch with reality during marathon sessions with ChatGPT and other bots.
By Ellen Huet and Rachel Metz
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The inside story of how two alleged murder plots brought India, the US and Canada to a diplomatic crisis. By Matthew Campbell
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New York’s mayoral frontrunner has been working to build a governing coalition by meeting with all comers, including the business community that’s been bashing his plans. By Fola Akinnibi and Laura Nahmias
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Nana Regional Corp. was supposed to honor Iñupiat values.
Some shareholders say it hasn’t.
By Polly Mosendz, Michael Smith and Rachel Adams-Heard
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Genetic selection has made “probably the biggest animal welfare problem we have in all animal husbandry.” By Axelle Playoust-Braure and Paul Tullis
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The sinking of the Gulf Livestock 1 was an existential moment for farm animal exporters. Some of those lessons are being forgotten. By Andrew S Lewis
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After decades of accumulating 'sleep debt,' is it possible to relearn rest and relaxation?
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Can crispy Chickenjoy and sweet spaghetti win over consumers in the US?
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As the UN endures a crisis of relevance, a new biography recalls a time when it wielded real power.
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With a new cookbook, author Polina Chesnakova looks to the past to understand how food plays a role in nation-building.
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In 1929, Andrew Ross Sorkin re-creates the euphoria and mania that led to the most famous stock market slump in history.
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Derek Li pulled his sons out of school to be taught by artificial intelligence. Now he’s betting the US is ready for machine-led learning.
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After two years of drama, David Ellison got his merger with the historic studio. The reward is a company in existential crisis. What’s his plan to save it? By Lucas Shaw and Hannah Miller
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Some performance artists bought the name for peanuts and concocted an elaborate sendup of corporate excesses. Then they tried to bring Enron back for real. By Max Chafkin
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The YouTube star known for outlandish stunts is making his most audacious move yet: Bringing in the adults. Can they help him turn his media business into an entertainment empire? By Lucas Shaw
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GIFT City has attracted global banks, but the community its planners promised remains far from reality.
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The tournament has always been political, but the US's antagonism toward its co-hosts stands out.
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Erin Patterson’s case joins a true-crime ecosystem obsessed with the sinister side of human nature.
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The toddler whisperer is far more than just a streaming sensation, thanks to her bestselling books, a hit toy line and an activist turn. By Aisha Counts and Felix Gillette
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Stellantis is a Frankenstein conglomerate of Jeep, Ram, Fiat, Maserati and other brands. Can it survive its own self-inflicted wounds—and a trade war?
By Gabrielle Coppola and Albertina Torsoli
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It’s not just you: Household product scents are getting stronger.
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The Booker Prize-winning author turns inward with Mother Mary Comes to Me.
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High tariffs have long tempted affluent travelers to sneak goods past customs.
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A sudden court order has turned into a test of the country's megacities.
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With carbon-fiber racquets, polyester strings and prodigious talent.
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Court battles are exposing limits on the judiciary’s ability to constrain the presidency.
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Long dismissed by traditionalists, catamarans are now at the center of the sport's reinvention.
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Many of the US's most popular parks don’t have chargers — and aren’t likely to soon.
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In the city's financial hub, swimmers share the water with ducks, eels and the ghosts of maritime past.
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Trainers are turning to synthetic death scents and surgical castoffs to train cadaver dogs.
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From booming metros to culture-defining exports, the South has quietly become a powerhouse.
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In his new book, Dan Wang argues that America could learn from Beijing’s focus on technical innovation.
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The US Treasury Secretary has the ear of an impulsive president—and nervous investors worldwide hope it stays that way. An exclusive interview. By Daniel Flatley and Erik Schatzker
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The restoration industry faces years-long waiting lists and a disappearing labor force.
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No pairs, no flushes, no full houses, no complicated order of hands.
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Gray Chang was branded a traitor for exposing Taipei’s covert weapons program. Many now view him as a hero.
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Bending the rules for beginners could make game play fairer, and faster.
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Models are getting better at winning, but not necessarily at following the rules
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In a new book, Amy Odell writes that the actress and businesswoman used her fame “to commodify her taste and lifestyle, and sell it back to us."
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Doodles—labradoodles, goldendoodles, bernedoodles—are everywhere. They’re now also a high-stakes, billion-dollar business. By Allie Conti
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He could have been an artist, or a builder or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dismantling, undoing. By Susan Berfield, Margi Murphy & Jason Leopold
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Junglia is less than an hour’s drive from US military bases where marines train for jungle warfare.
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An age-old belief in astrology has snowballed into a $7 billion industry.
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For Austrian heiress Marlene Engelhorn, exiting the 1% is about more than just money.
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Each year, thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un’s rocket program with hundreds of millions in wages from blue-chip IT jobs. In a Bloomberg Businessweek exclusive, one of the regime’s American pawns tells all. By Evan Ratliff
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Fresh off a tour for his second novel, the author is learning to live with being seen as a translator of the immigrant experience.
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The history of nutrition science in the US suggests that MAHA would make more sense without the ‘A.’
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A massive database of medical images is offering an unprecedented window into how diseases take hold.
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The shape-shifting telehealth company has spent the past year trying to cash in on GLP-1s, the hottest drug to hit weight loss in decades. It could all slip away. By Madison Muller and Devin Leonard
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To succeed, Washington will need to look outward not inward.
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A quest for eternal vigor led to less drinking, more exercise and an epiphany about learning to let go.
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Military and medical science brought federal funding to campuses, but student tuition helped keep it there
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Demand for the Instagram-friendly nuts have driven up margins for farmers.
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A Washington DC chef is working to banish plastic from his restaurant entirely.
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The author of The Idea That Is America explains how the US lost its moral footing.
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A sports startup that allows performance-enhancing drugs is brash, confrontational, and perfect for the Trump era.
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The tech company’s theatrical programming business is in need of a win.
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Surreal conversations are prompting introspection about what it means to be human.
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Startups used to brag about valuations and venture capital. Now AI is making revenue per employee the new holy grail.
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Anxious about their prospects, younger Chinese are seeking a glimpse of the future through astrology and other forms of fortune-telling.
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Once considered a harmless curiosity, the niche corner of the nightlife industry is being blamed for driving vulnerable women into debt.
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Can the iconic ’90s retailer finally make a comeback—and survive tariffs?
By Amanda Mull and Lily Meier
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Social media is a minefield for professional athletes. But online chess offers rankings, instant analysis, wholesome interactions and few trolls.
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Physical therapists in New York are seeing an uptick in younger male patients with penile and bladder issues.
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Mark Cuban is a self-made billionaire, sports mogul, small-business influencer, media personality, Democratic surrogate and possible health-care disruptor. There’s only one job he doesn’t yet have on his résumé. By Max Chafkin and John Tozzi
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Known for its mud-brick architecture, the town of Djenné is struggling to attract tourists and maintain buildings that have been damaged by floods.
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Hampton Inn has become the nation’s most powerful hotel chain, and a global export, by being rigorously OK. By Patrick Clark
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'Risky' experiences are often the most satisfying for our brains.
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A status symbol that stretches back centuries suddenly has new meaning.
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Fifty years in, the group's political and economic ambitions are languishing.
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A wannabe hip-hop mogul and a onetime porn-video recruiter turned Obamacare into a lucrative get-rich-quick scheme—with an assist from Bain Capital. By Zeke Faux and Zachary R Mider
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The Wall Street billionaire remade himself into a very-online, Trump-loving culture warrior. Now he wants to be the next Warren Buffett. By Annie Massa and Katherine Burton
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History shows that linguistics evolve in unpredictable ways.
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Creators are making longer shows to meet viewers where they are: increasingly, in front of their TVs.
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Over centuries, lacrosse flourished at the expense of its Native American origins.
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Sacred sites are booming as the government promotes pilgrimages and Instagram influencers help make religion cool.
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For his next trick, the Tony-winning producer wants to improve the theater-going experience in New York.
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In a new memoir, the billionaire chairman and founder of IAC says his fear of coming out as gay made him far more fearless in business.
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Meta’s CEO has done everything he can to win over Trump, and it’s not clear how much he has to show for it. By Riley Griffin and Kurt Wagner
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As the wealthy converge on Punta del Este, developers are building luxury polo clubs to boost the beach town’s cachet.
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As Saudi power grows, decisions made in the Gulf will increasingly affect wallets in the US.
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Black South Africans are embracing the sport as the nation struggles to overcome the legacy of White minority rule.
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Dario Amodei is navigating a tricky transition from academic to CEO of a $61 billion startup. By Shirin Ghaffary
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The Microsoft CEO is trying to find the company’s place in the AI age while balancing the interests of nervous customers and a volatile partnership with OpenAI.
By Austin Carr and Dina Bass
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A rising generation of well-credentialed scientists is betting that algorithms will turbocharge the search for extraterrestrial life. By Jordan Robertson and Drake Bennett
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DeepSeek’s sudden emergence illustrates how the country’s AI industry is thriving despite US efforts to slow it down. By Bloomberg Businessweek
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Cartoon Network used to generate big profits, cranking out nutty, surrealist animation for TV audiences. But with the cable bundle melting and the streaming service Max pulling back from kids programming, the future of the brand looks precarious. By Felix Gillette
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China’s falling marriage rate is exacerbating a demographic crisis in the world's second-largest economy.
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Ian Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel tracks a single barge through booms, busts and at least one war.
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The US economy will end up paying the price for Trump's attacks on American universities.
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Clara Wu Tsai could hold the key to the WNBA’S future—and maybe to the entire business of women’s sports. By Megan Greenwell
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A master of contemporary operas, John Adams takes on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra — and hopes more Americans will show an interest.
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A new book explores why MLMs are still popular — and legal — even though so many people lose money in them.
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After being eradicated in the US in the 1980s, the screwworm could be back as soon as this summer.
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The rules that govern the election of a new pope have been refined and rewritten for centuries. But the process still isn’t perfect.
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Lenacapavir could be a gamechanger in the fight against infection. But US funding cuts have thrown the rollout of the twice-yearly injection into doubt.
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As tensions with Russia rise, 13 Norwegian soldiers have been sent to the far North to test the cold’s effects on their minds, bodies and equipment.
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The Evolution of the Alpha Male Aesthetic
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At the world’s biggest watch fair, upper-middle-class dreams are destroyed.
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Many men say that taking parental leave is perceived by their boss as a lack of professional commitment.
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The US Treasury secretary must defend Trump's economic agenda while maintaining investors’ faith in US bonds.
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Merck Mercuriadis convinced pop stars and Wall Street that music was the next hot asset class. It worked out for everyone—but him.
By Devin Leonard
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GM’s Mary Barra is trying to figure out how to sell electric cars in Trump’s America.
By David Welch
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Fish eggs are still a menu upsell, but they’re more popular than ever.
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AI could eventually do much of the work that takes doctors away from time spent with patients.
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Two years after Elon Musk acquired the social platform, it's fair to wonder if it's even a business at all.
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The more popular they are, points programs become less generous
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Many tech executives present as philosophers. The CEO of the most valuable company in the world just want make chips.
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As anti-US sentiment increases across Europe, one retailer is giving shoppers a way to avoid American products.
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Hannah Selinger’s ‘Cellar Rat’ is full of fascinating intel on the business of selling wine, plus petty grievances against the hospitality world.
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Americans of all political affiliations will miss the checks and balances that Trump is trying to dispense with.
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The island’s sledding championship is taking on added cultural — and political — importance.
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As devastated communities struggle to kick-start rebuilding, some experts warn that officials aren’t thinking enough about the bigger picture. By Laura Bliss
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What would happen to a city if one company owned most of it?
Exhibit A: Irvine, California. By Michael Waters and John Gittelsohn.
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Ben Stiller’s twisty office horror show draws on a long cinematic history and exposes our deepest fears about work.
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A history of The Onion provides some clues of how American comedy can rise to the second Trump term
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As nightclubs and karaoke bars go out of business in China, big brewers are changing their game plan.
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The company is overhauling its $200 billion money machine before everyone abandons it for ChatGPT. By Julia Love and Davey Alba
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Rapid expansion made TD Bank a household name in the US but left it vulnerable to criminals—and billion in fines.
By Christine Dobby, Ari Altstedter, David Voreacos and Tom Schoenberg
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They’re getting smarter, deadlier and more indispensable, and almost all of them
come from China. One Silicon Valley company wants to change that.
By Drake Bennett and Ashlee Vance.
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Unfazed by talk of trade wars, buyers at a Miami car show paid record prices for rare autos.
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The calculus on renting versus buying a home in the US has gotten much more complex since the 1960s
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Two recent books examine the dark side of capitalism’s effect on urban development.
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What began as a Korean specialty market four decades ago is now a billion-dollar grocery empire with an obsessive foodie following. By Adam Chandler
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The act of putting something aside is an exercise in remembering
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Hailed worldwide as an exemplar of restorative justice, Nelson Mandela's Truth and Reconciliation Commission left many crimes unpunished.
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Attempts to preserve the natural world might feel noble, but they’re stifling our chance of a decarbonized future.
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How tropical travel and nights on the town helped First Trust sell funds with high fees.
By Emily Graffeo and Max Abelson
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A UK program is giving people the opportunity to get acquainted with the technology before they commit.
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America’s founding fathers had the luxury of secrecy. Modern attempts to write constitutions are bedeviled by polarization and hyper-scrutiny.
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A new book argues that liberal America's deference to expertise morphed into intolerance for dissenting views.
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The tech ‘canon’ of books and ideas over-indexes on great men and celebrates small teams that changed the world.
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The India-Pakistan game in Dubai will showcase cricket's fiercest rivalry, and the UAE's influence on a sport few locals play.
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In a reboot of the ‘Cool Japan’ initiative, the nation is using anime and manga to boost its soft power.
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Walmart CEO Doug McMillon is trying to convince shoppers that his stores are fashionable. And convince talent that Bentonville is the new Austin. And convince Trump that the global retail colossus is as American as it gets. The selling seems to be working. So far. By Jaewon Kang and Devin Leonard
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Using artificial intelligence to summarize meetings raises questions around etiquette, privacy and the purpose of meeting in the first place.
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A new biography of the Saturday Night Live founder chronicles his decades of relevance.
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Tesla and SpaceX both relied on their labor while Musk advocated for a border crackdown. By Julia Love
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Throughout US history, the judiciary has worried about being ignored.
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When a car is stolen in the US, there’s a good chance that the thief is a teenager (who may think life is a lot like a video game) and that the vehicle will end up in western Africa.
By Jonathan Franklin
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Trying to nail down the cost of inputs for artificial general intelligence.
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Both Democratic and Republican presidents established the precedent for Donald Trump’s plan to send migrants to the notorious prison base.
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In a memoir of his childhood, the Microsoft founder attributes his success to a mix of freedom and luck.
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Cordyceps sells in Beijing for $136,000 a pound and has made its way into Whole Foods. It underpins entire communities in the Himalayas, but that comes with a lot of downsides.
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Joseph Firmage helped create the internet economy before being dismissed as a UFO kook. These days, he’s being sued by antigravity-machine investors and claiming to be hounded by a Jamaican wire-fraud gang, with a guy pretending to be Steven Mnuchin along for the ride.
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The wildfires exposed an uncomfortable truth about the city
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Changes in the Chinese economy signal evolution, not collapse.
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As retail theft soars in the UK, companies are spending more on store security — including hiring “mystery shoplifters” to test it firsthand.
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Flappy Bird, Foursquare and other ghost apps show the fate TikTok may avoid.
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In Gambling Man, Lionel Barber charts the Softbank founder’s rollercoaster career and his persistent quest for acceptance.
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A belated effort to remove chemical waste from the Union Carbide factory revives complaints of justice left incomplete.
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The new Dodge Charger has real speed and torque. So what if its growl is fake?
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Despite searing heat, choking pollution and dangerous roads, running clubs are sprouting up across the nation.
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Few infernos in American history have led to shifts in how the country plans cities, builds structures and insures against risk.
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When Nike and Adidas stumbled, a Swiss upstart soared—and now finds itself at the center of the comfy shoe craze. By Tim Loh and Lily Meier
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Young women online are embracing a lifestyle of luxury and ease backstopped by financial support from men.
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Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao’s blockbuster Lost Ladies tackles India’s modernizing view of relationships.
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How Athletic Brewing helped create a whole new category of drink: nonalcoholic beer
that actually tastes ... good? By Andrew Zaleski
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The news business is facing its next enormous challenge. Here are eight reasons to be both optimistic and paranoid.
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Fighting for a Share of a $1 Trillion Market in Borneo’s Jungle
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Chick-fil-A's Lemon-squeezing Robots Are Saving 10,000 Hours of Work
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Books and podcasts about the past are surging in popularity, making them increasingly profitable.
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The luxury brand’s incoming CEO will have to reverse a sales slump, but Gucci’s history shows the company is no stranger to dramatic turnarounds.
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Firms are so desperate for graduates they’re paying off student loans and offering cheap housing.
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The basic logic of white-collar apprenticeship — grunt work for on-the-job learning — is suddenly at risk.
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A court decision may allow it to be imported, but won’t diminish the authorities’ appetite for proscribing books.
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Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown wants to reimagine the universe of athlete shoe deals. How scared should the sneaker giants be?
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Fred Smith, its legendary founder, has stepped aside, sort of.
CEO Raj Subramaniam now has the complicated job
of reorganizing the company, soothing investors
and keeping an eye on a second Smith.
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North Dakota wants to entomb millions of tons of CO2 emissions a mile deep—but not for the reason you might think. A central goal of the state’s ambitious carbon- capture program is to allow it to keep pumping oil and burning coal.
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US bike sales never recovered after the recession. To figure out why, a new citizen put an American tradition to the test.
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From his social-media network to real estate and crypto, the former president’s return to the White House will give him power to leverage his array of assets.
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Taiwan relies on the US to defend it against China, but Trump's transactional approach raises questions about his commitment to the island democracy
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Be in the know this election with Bloomberg Podcasts. Follow Bloomberg News Now for up-to-the minute election results, all night long. And go deeper with The Big Take podcast, featuring in-depth global analysis of the US election every day this week.
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It’s commonplace to say that sports build character, but less common to ask how.
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Demand for the precious metal has shoppers flocking to a jewelry hub in Shenzhen.
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History holds clues for the country’s political future, regardless of who wins on Nov. 5.
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How did a bizarre architectural conspiracy theory insert itself into the US political discourse — and why do so many adherents insist that Donald Trump is a believer?
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According to consumer price index calculators, a beer that cost 20 cents in 1913 should cost $6.40 now. But such calculations ignore the changing value of money.
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Prediction markets have been around for hundreds of years, but their ability to change reality is increasing.
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Free tempura toppings and golf are luring retail investors to the country’s biggest IPO since 2018.
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This year's $45 million auction price for a Stegosauraus skeleton was a sign of the times. Fossils are emerging as a new asset class.
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The lie-flat generation is choosing self-care over luxury goods and extra gap years over poorly paid entry-level jobs.
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A first-of-its-kind insurance program bought time to shore up flood defenses, but exclusive data shows that isn’t happening quickly enough.
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BYD is flooding markets with affordable electric cars—while the US is doing everything it can to keep the booming Chinese brand out.
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Scientists are developing a vaccine against fentanyl with the potential to chart a new course in the drug epidemic. By Robert Langreth and Lizette Chapman
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How Starbucks became the colorful, heavily sweetened, extremely Instagrammable hangout for tweens and teens. By Deena Shanker and Daniela Sirtori
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What can a trademark lawsuit tell us about the future of artificial intelligence—and about what makes winners and losers in Silicon Valley? By Evan Ratliff
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Biden’s FTC chair has toughened merger oversight, taken on noncompetes and made the donor class crazy. Here’s where she’s headed next—if she gets the chance. By Josh Eidelson and Max Chafkin
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How a card-playing Siberian AI outsmarted the world’s brightest researchers and raked in millions. By Kit Chellel
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Who she is, and what she might do if she wins
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Silicon Valley fixture John Donahoe was supposed to transform the sneaker giant into a money-minting, high-tech juggernaut. Instead, it’s in crisis mode. By Kim Bhasin and Lily Meier
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Tyler Tech dominates America’s software industry for local governments, for better and worse. By Austin Carr
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Ramping down global emissions is achievable in terms of cost. But until the US and other rich countries assume a war footing, we don’t stand a chance of meeting critical climate goals. By J.B. MacKinnon
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The system for deciding asylum cases is failing, and not only because it’s overwhelmed. Something drastic will have to be done to fix a process that is flawed at its very core. By Monte Reel and Sinduja Rangarajan
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A Chinese businessman persuaded officials to establish a special economic zone in a remote part of Laos. The gamblers arrived first. Then came the drug runners and human traffickers. By Matthew Campbell and Patpicha Tanakasempipat
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America's weight-loss drug capital isn't Hollywood or Manhattan. It's Bowling Green, Kentucky. By Madison Muller, Devin Leonard, and Tanaz Meghjani
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Yosemite is falling apart. Current and former employees and superfans of the national park blame Aramark, the company that mostly runs the place. By Laura Bliss
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Bloomberg's Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec cover the latest earnings from Meta, the parent company of Facebook. They speak with Bloomberg News Contributor Jon Erlichman and Bloomberg News Social Media Reporter Aisha Counts.
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Bloomberg's Tom Keene, Lisa Abramowicz and Jonathan Ferro cover the latest remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell, following the central bank's latest policy decision.
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The internet’s biggest recreation zone for kids is fighting to keep pedophiles away, and it's not always winning. By Olivia Carville and Cecilia D’Anastasio
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Jeff Yass built Susquehanna into one of Wall Street’s most powerful trading firms. He’s also the libertarian billionaire enmeshed with TikTok—and betting on Trump.
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His company, LVMH, bought up many of the world’s major luxury brands. And he’s not finished shopping. By Brad Stone and Angelina Rascouet
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Nickel is pouring into the EV supply chain from an Indonesian industrial park with a history of fatal accidents. By Matthew Campbell and Annie Lee
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After duds and missteps, the animation studio is looking to Inside Out 2 to help it
recapture the magic. By Thomas Buckley
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DNA testing didn't turn out to be the panacea we were promised decades ago, but that's OK—unless you're 23andMe. By Kristen V. Brown
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As unions take on Elon Musk, a small Swedish strike has big stakes
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Criminal gangs are posing as flirty girls on Instagram and Snapchat to torment high school boys, drain their bank accounts and push them to the edge.
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At Streit’s matzo factory, production follows strict Jewish law. But the meaning of the Passover staple is still up for debate. By Deena Shanker
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The Australian kids’ show has swept the world. But its future is in doubt
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General Electric was in dire straits. The only way to save America’s quintessential
conglomerate was to break it up. By Brooke Sutherland & Ryan Beene
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Thirty years of providing the world's finest wool to the fashion house Loro Piana has done almost nothing for the indigenous people of the Peruvian Andes.
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A24 has an indie cult following and a $2.5 billion valuation. Can the film company scale its brand of hipster cringe?
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Almost 2,000 years ago, a volcano preserved Herculaneum’s vast library of
scrolls but left them unreadable. A volunteer army of nerds has been racing
to decipher them. By Ashlee Vance and Ellen Huet
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Fresh off his historic victory in Detroit, UAW chief Shawn Fain is taking on Elon Musk, Donald Trump and labor’s green future.
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Scientists and startups are trying to figure out how to control a woman’s biological clock. If they do, it could also unlock the key to aging. By Kristen V. Brown
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On New Year’s Eve 2020, young women from a Long Island town were horrified
to learn their photographs had been manipulated and posted online. When the law failed them, they tracked down the culprit themselves.
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For years the world’s greatest deep-sea shipwreck hunter has battled governments and rivals over the ocean floor’s riches. He’s kept his identity a secret, until now.
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The world’s richest person, boldest entrepreneur and most controversial CEO is moving forward with his grand ambitions for neural implants. Is he the one we want messing with our heads? By Ashlee Vance
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Can the company that makes most of the world’s iPhones pivot to building electric cars in Ohio? By Reed Stevenson
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Sergio Ermotti is back at the helm of UBS—and looking to capitalize on the deal of
a lifetime. By Marion Halftermeyer, Myriam Balezou and Alessandro Speciale, with Max Reyes
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With K-pop’s biggest boy band on hiatus, the South Korean music mogul behind the group is turning to the US to find its successor. Or something close to it.
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How a murder in a nondescript Canadian suburb triggered an international crisis.
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How a certain search engine became an investigative tool of first resort.
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No one has more US stores than Dollar General. There are costs. By Josh Eidelson and Brendan Case
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Mom and Dad are renowned legal scholars. Their son is on trial in one of the world’s biggest fraud cases. By Max Chafkin and Hannah Miller
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Lyme disease has grown explosively in the two-plus decades since the last vaccine was pulled from the market. How enthusiastic will the reception be for a new one?
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Hackers ripped off Michael Terpin with a textbook SIM swap. When he went to war to get his $24 million back, the thieves’ friends were unusually happy to help.
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Almost six years after pharmaceuticals magnate Barry Sherman and his wife, Honey, became two of the wealthiest people ever to be murdered,
police still haven’t identified the killers. But they have turned up no shortage of potential suspects—and a family drama worthy of Succession.
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AI has turned a business dispute between Hollywood studios and writers and actors into an existential crisis—one that probably only money can solve. By Lucas Shaw
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WeightWatchers is going all-in on trendy new anti-obesity drugs. The gamble might save the company—if it doesn’t kill it first. By Emma Court and Ellen Huet
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A $500 million catalytic converter theft ring—and the effort to bring it down. By Evan Ratliff
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How a Huawei Mole Got Caught Trying to Swing a $200 Million 5G Contract - At TDC in Copenhagen, all of senior management was under suspicion. Its computer network was compromised, people were getting trailed. And then there were the drones … by Drake Bennett and Jordan Robertson
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The fall of startup A123 still haunts the US decades later—and reveals everything that’s wrong with this country’s approach to innovation. By Gabrielle Coppola
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Remember when Yeezy made Adidas the hottest shoe company in the world? How the biggest collab since Nike met Jordan went so wrong. By Kim Bhasin and Tim Loh
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As Japan reconsiders decades of pacifism, Hiroshima is becoming an unlikely defense hub. By Yoshiaki Nohara
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Shannon You was a good chemist, a bad colleague—and a thief. She planned to use the IP she'd stolen to start a company in China, and it might have worked if she herself hadn't been duped.
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Those ubiquitously marketed new meds? They work. And they cost at least $10,000 a year. By Emma Court and Robert Langreth
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After giving up his Comedy Central show, Dave Chappelle returned to his Ohio hometown and began living a low-key life. Then he started buying properties, complained about his neighbors on Saturday Night Live and waged an epic battle
over development. By Tyler J. Kelley
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For decades, casinos scoffed as gamblers devised elaborate systems to gain an advantage over the house. That changed after an unassuming Croatian won more than £1 million over several nights at a London club. The question—for casinos, cops, and a Bloomberg Businessweek reporter—was how, exactly, he did it. By Kit Chellel
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With Honor Among Thieves hitting theaters, Hasbro tries to overcome 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons business disasters without enraging its fan base.
By Felix Gillette and Thomas Buckley
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People who grew accustomed to sexting with Replika’s AI-powered companions were heartbroken when the company blocked its bots from engaging in racy chats. By Ellen Huet
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In Washington, politics will shape the narrative surrounding any company that doesn’t seek to write it itself. By Alex Barinka and Anna Edgerton
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Culture warriors, foodies and affluent homeowners are clutching their gas stoves. Can Americans finally be persuaded to switch to induction? By Aaron Gell
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Inside the US government's effort to unravel a giant financial fraud, with some help from the celebrities who got paintings and bags of cash via a friendly future fugitive named Jho Low.
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How rapper Pras Michél got entangled in one of the century’s great financial scandals. By Jason Leopold, Anthony Cormier and Matthew Campbell
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When explosives were found outside Mukesh Ambani’s home in Mumbai, the cops blamed terrorists. The truth—and the rot it exposed—was far more alarming. By Chris Kay and P.R. Sanjai
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Tony Khan’s All Elite Wrestling wants to unseat WWE, if its chairman, Vince McMahon, doesn’t do it first. By Kim Bhasin
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When people cross the US-Mexico border hoping to immigrate, they encounter a smuggling network whose operators are often highly vulnerable themselves. By Julia Love
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The Florida governor’s attacks on business leaders who promote progressive values are finding traction with the Republican grassroots. By Joshua Green
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How Balkan gangs infiltrated the world's biggest shipping company and created a global trafficking network. By Lauren Etter and Michael Riley
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To reduce food waste, Misfits Market specializes in ugly organics, odd meat cuts and overstock packaged goods. Now it needs to scale its unusual supply chain way, way up. By Andrew Zaleski
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Kids as young as 8 have died attempting online challenges. Is social media to blame? By Olivia Carville
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Guyana is betting on a paradox. The Caribbean nation wants to cash in on oil. It promises to use those billions to prepare for a more sustainable future. By Monte Reel
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The bank whose collapse marked the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis is only mostly dead. Meet the people attending to its final remains. By Lucca de Paoli and Jeremy Hill
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For a measure of just how fed up American workers are, look to Starbucks, where baristas are unionizing at a pace that would have been unimaginable a year ago andinspiring similar activism elsewhere. By Josh Eidelson
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New owners have given stodgy F1 an American makeover. Can the racing series and its photogenic stars finally crack the world's biggest sports market? By Austin Carr
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In vitro fertilization is already a grueling path to pregnancy. With embryos gaining new legal protections, it could become a criminal one. By Jill Filipovic
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Texas leads the US in maternity ward closures, and nowhere is this more of an issue than in the western part of the state. By Claire Suddath
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Klarna, Affirm and Afterpay have turned four easy payments into a whole new credit universe. Economic uncertainty and regulatory scrutiny—and, of course, the usual debt problems—are spoiling the fun. By Esmé E. Deprez, Evan Weinberger and Jenny Surane
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NASA and the FAA are preparing to revolutionize air traffic control for the drone era. By Chris Feliciano Arnold
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Did a novelty rapper and her startup-guy boyfriend commit history's biggest heist? By Zeke Faux
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Deep in the Cambodian jungle, investigators are unraveling a trafficking network that brought antiquities all the way to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. by Matthew Campbell
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Critics say Binance's Changpeng Zhao became the wealthiest man in crypto by operating the equivalent of an unlicensed casino. He says that's all in the past. By Justina Lee and Max Chafkin
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Presidential campaigns in Brazil normally don't seize the world's attention. But these aren't normal times. By Jessica Brice, Andrew Rosati, and Tatiana Freitas
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Xu Yanjun was an intelligence officer who stole secrets for a living. His own secrets he uploaded to the cloud. By Jordan Robertson and Drake Bennett
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The $100 billion invested in the driverless-vehicles industry has mostly taken us in circles, according to an emerging consensus of experts—and the Trump-pardoned guy who invented it. By Max Chafkin
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Ledgers, Bitcoin, Blockchains, by Matt Levine
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The Crypto Financial System, by Matt Levine
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Trust, Money, Community, by Matt Levine
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Business lessons from the legendary point guard, prolific investor, and pal of Bob Iger. By Arianne Cohen
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Governments across the U.S. are trying Darrick Hamilton’s big idea for closing the wealth gap. By Ben Steverman
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The world's elite want their children to have White teachers and Western outlooks, and international schools aim to please. By Natalie Obiko Pearson
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Twenty-one years after its approval by the FDA, mifepristone could—but probably won’t— revolutionize a post-Roe world. By Cynthia Koons
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McCormick, the 132-year-old prince of pumpkin spice, paragon of tarragon, major-domo of marjoram, has taken over an entirely new category. By Austin Carr
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As the pandemic wears on and prices rise, many Americans are disillusioned with the president. Can he win them back? By Nancy Cook and Josh Wingrove
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Ilya Sachkov, now behind bars in Moscow, is alleged to have given the U.S. information on the 2016 election hacking. By Irina Reznick, Henry Meyer, and Jordan Robertson
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Biden's Build Back Better plan may make day care more affordable for parents—if the providers don't go belly up first. By Claire Suddath
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23andMe is using its customers’ genetic data to try to become a new kind of pharma company. By Kristen V. Brown
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Along with the Great Resignation and #Striketober, the unemployed are fighting for reforms that could translate into lasting leverage. By Josh Eidelson
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An inside look at how Nike founder Phil Knight is giving a fortune to his family while avoiding billions in U.S. taxes. By Ben Steverman, Anders Melin, and Devon Pendleton
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Southwest Louisiana is being battered by hurricanes. But while locals are moving out, workers from around the country are swarming in to capitalize on a natural gas bonanza. By Shannon Sims
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In most U.S. states, employers and schools are allowed to discriminate against box braids, locs, and other traditional styles. A coalition of activists and legislators has started to change that. By Patrice Peck
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Parents for Peace enlists ex-believers to help families win back loved ones drawn to Islamism, QAnon, and other ideologies. Demand has never been higher. By David Yaffe-Bellany and Sophia Cai
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A wild search for the billions of U.S. dollars supposedly backing Tether, the world’s most popular stablecoin. By Zeke Faux
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Insider trading allows the well-connected to profit from privileged information. Technically, it's illegal—but only technically. By Liam Vaughan
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As developer Evergrande faces a debt crunch, China tries to depend less on real estate. By Bloomberg News
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Permissive laws have created a booming market for fossils. Paleontologists aren’t thrilled, but for Clayton Phipps and his peers, it’s a living. By Andrew Zaleski
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When Donald Trump called for a big, beautiful wall, a guy from North Dakota named Tommy Fisher spent millions to build a 3-mile stretch along the Rio Grande. All Fisher needs now is for someone to buy it back. By Simon V.Z. Wood
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Microsoft operates a sort of digital bank, which handles millions, if not billions, of dollars each year. One of the company’s junior engineers figured out how to rob it. By Austin Carr
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To millions of fans, Ramon Abbas was a self-made influencer synonymous with luxury. To the FBI, he was the man behind scams hoping to net hundreds of millions of dollars. By Evan Ratliff
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is indicating he wants to change his ways. Let’s see. By Erik Schatzker
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The untold story of the Ever Given crisis. By Kit Chellel, Matthew Campbell, and K. Oanh Ha
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When violent crimes happen during stays, the company’s secretive safety team is called on to soothe guests, help families—and prevent PR disasters. By Olivia Carville
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The former president’s strategic retreat to Mar-a-Lago has helped turn Florida into a new home base for Republicans. By Joshua Green
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A few months of poor performance haven’t shaken the superstar fund manager’s faith in a future where technology makes everything better and her investors get very rich. By Ben Steverman, Claire Ballentine & Annie Massa
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A trawl through 30 years of data traces the evolution of superstar firms, a difficult-to-tame species. By Tom Orlik, Justin Jimenez, and Cedric Sam
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Chamath Palihapitiya—tech billionaire, Golden State Warriors co-owner, and all-around meme lord—has a sure-thing, 100%-can’t-miss
investment for you that will definitely, absolutely pay off for him. By Zeke Faux
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The RV business is booming and shows no sign of slowing down. To find out why, our correspondent dragged his reluctant family to the RV capital of the world—the cutest city in north central Indiana!—and hit the road. By Patrick Clark
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David Neeleman, airline savant (think JetBlue) and perpetual optimist, is at it again with a new budget carrier called Breeze. By Drake Bennett
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Is the app that brought zero-commission trades and a mobile-first design to millions of investors too good at what it does? By Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou, Annie Massa, and Anders Melin
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A December suicide sparked concern by employee representatives about the risk of more deaths. The bank says it’s focused on well-being. By Stephanie Bodoni and Gavin French
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Selling its Alaskan oil business last year was a green win for BP. But not for the planet. By Rachel Adams-Heard
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While Amazon and its peers have stopped supporting certain prominent White supremacists and conspiracy theorists, Nick Lim has stepped in. By William Turton and Joshua Brustein
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The fast rise and even faster fall of a trader who bet big with borrowed money. By Erik Schatzker,
Sridhar Natarajan, and Katherine Burton
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How Oxford and AstraZeneca's low-cost, not-for-profit Covid vaccine went from hope too hesitancy. By Stephanie Baker and Suzi Ring
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Companies and countries that depend on travel or large gatherings are counting on a totally unproven concept. By Christopher Jasper, Angus Whitley, and Eleni Chrepa
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Vaccines are great and all, but molnupiravir, an antiviral drug in late-stage trials, could give doctors another major tool to end the pandemic—if, of course, it proves safe and effective. By Cynthia Koons and Riley Griffin
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The government gave Puritan $250 million to make more Covid swabs. That doesn’t mean the guys in charge stopped fighting. By Olivia Carville
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Dorothy Brown has spent her career documenting racism in a tax system that’s supposedly colorblind. By Ben Steverman
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How an unfair property-tax system blocks the building of Black wealth. By Jason Grotto
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Pfizer deserves every bit of the credit it’s receiving. But should a drug company decide who gets a shot? By Stephanie Baker, Cynthia Koons, and Vernon Silver
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Young resellers are wringing profits out of everything from the latest Yeezys to outlet-store leftovers—and turning sneakers into a bona fide asset class. By Joshua Hunt
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Beverley Schottenstein said two grandsons who managed her money at JPMorgan forged documents, ran up commissions with inappropriate trading and made her miss tens of millions of dollars in gains. So she decided to teach them all a lesson. By Tom Schoenberg
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Trade war? Pfft. Trump? Please. Antitrust? Zuck’s problem. (Ditto privacy.) Revenue? Endless. By Austin Carr and Mark Gurman
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The fight against Covid isn’t over, but we’re already learning lessons for the next epidemiological crisis—and the one after that. By Robert Langreth
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Laugh at him. Shun his business, Sue him. The Pillow King won't stop his bizarre quest to prove Donald Trump was cheated. Josh Dean
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His body wrecked by ALS, my father insisted that his death, like his life, was his to control. By Esmé E. Deprez
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But the world still needs a shot in the arm. By Peter Coy
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Elon Musk’s company got unprecedented help from Beijing. What happens once Tesla has served the state’s purpose.
By Matthew Campbell, with Chunying Zhang, Haze Fan, David Stringer, and Emma O’Brien
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After the coronavirus hit the cruise industry and guests were sent home, the ships floated on, as employees struggled to cope with a monthslong lockdown. They didn’t all make it. By Austin Carr
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With a big hand from the government, pharmaceutical companies delivered the vaccine that the world desperately needed. Here’s how something in 2020 went right for a change. By Drew Armstrong
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The pandemic has meant that white-collar workers can suddenly live anywhere. That will have implications for pay—how does a 20% salary cut sound?—and could reshape the U.S. By Noah Buhayar
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Open the windows. Stop the obsessive sanitizing. Spread some good germs around. a building, Like a person, is only as healthy as its microbiome, By Caroline Winter
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As other nations locked down or let the coronavirus run rampant, South Korea found a middle way—and a road map for future pandemics.
By Matthew Campbell and Heesu Lee
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The sanitizer maker is churning out more product than ever before. But with a pandemic winter on the way, that's still not enough. By Drew Armstrong
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Locked-down Americans are pampering their pets like never before, and Chewy is reaping the benefits.
By Anders Melin and Bryan Gruley
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Paris and other metros want to be “15-minute cities,” where residents’ needs can all be met nearby. Can the approach work in car-centric places, without leaving anyone out? By Feargus O’Sullivan and Laura Bliss
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Neither is Trump. If he's defeated this time, he could even run again in 2024. By Joshua Green
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This lawyer says yes. By David Yaffe-Bellany
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Amid the horrors of the pandemic and America’s poor handling of it, some good news: Operation Warp Speed is likely to produce a vaccine soon. By Stephanie Baker and Cynthia Koons
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OAN has positioned itself as the Trumpiest channel on air—and an eventual home for the president, win or lose. By Felix Gillette and Gerry Smith
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Why so many parents are taking their cues from a hyper-rational, data-obsessed economist. By Esmé E. Deprez
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With the seasons changing and a vaccine a ways off, the U.S. needs to dramatically improve its infrastructure for rapid Covid testing. It’s got options. By Drake Bennett and Michelle Fay Cortez
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Harvard economist Raj Chetty has a God’s-eye view of the pandemic’s damage. By Ben Steverman
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How were hundreds of people with Covid-19 allowed to step off a Carnival liner in Sydney and return to their homes around the world? By Matthew Campbell
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The bellwether Maricopa County, Ariz., is pointing away from the GOP. By Joshua Green
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The cartels make heroin and methamphetamine using chemicals produced in Mexico by U.S. companies, and then send the drugs to America. By Cam Simpson, Michael Smith, and Nacha Cattan
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The world’s governments are vying to secure doses before their peers can. It’s already getting ugly. By Vernon Silver
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An Indian racehorse dynasty may be the world’s best hope for producing enough vaccine to end the pandemic. By Ari Altstedter
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Decades ago, Pepsi's Number Fever promotion captivated consumers and promised to end Coke's domination in the Philippines. But an error at a bottling plant led to disaster. By Jeff Maysh
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If you’re a therapist—or any small business owner, really— you live and die with Google. Regulators may step in. By Mark Bergen and Shelly Banjo
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The Covid-19 crisis may leave a lasting imprint on U.S. fertility trends, taking a toll on growth. By Peter Coy
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How a gold casting of Nelson Mandela’s hands became an art world albatross. By Danielle Bochove
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Ben & Jerry’s recipe for corporate activism. By Jordyn Holman and Thomas Buckley
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Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine, devised by Sarah Gilbert, is in human trials. AstraZeneca has lined up agreements to produce 2 billion doses. Now the world waits. By Stephanie Baker
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For 30 years, experts have tried and failed to solve the most expensive, and possibly strangest, art heist in history. By Claire Suddath
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In the Irish borderlands, Sean Quinn was always known as a tough businessman. But he was hugely successful and created thousands of jobs. A local hero. And then it all went wrong. By Kit Chellel and Liam Vaughan
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Cash-strapped, dysfunctional, and led by a chloroquine-obsessed populist, Brazil may be the pandemic’s perfect storm. By Julia Leite, Simone Iglesias, Martha Beck, and Ethan Bronner
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They’ve helped women. Can quotas help change the racial makeup of C-suites and management? By Rebecca Greenfield
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The cruise industry was already in a Covid-19 crisis when the MS Zaandam set sail. Yet Holland America was unprepared when people began to fall sick and country after country turned the ship away. By Michael Smith, Drake Bennett, and K. Oanh Ha
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Mainstream economics has many ideas about getting beyond racism. Which lessons apply in real life? By Peter Coy
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The pandemic has sent American workers plummeting into a safety net that wasn’t prepared to catch them. By Claire Suddath
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Peter Fitzek was a leading light in the Reichsbürger movement, which denies Germany’s very existence. He founded a kingdom and opened a bank—then the German government started asking where the money went. By David Gauvey Herbert
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Trump is gambling on reopening the American economy early, even if it costs more lives. But that’s a false choice. We can reboot and still be safe. Here’s a realist’s guide to getting through the pandemic. By Peter Coy
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Emergency approval of the antiviral drug remdesivir is the first good news of this pandemic. Gilead Sciences took extraordinary steps to get ready for the moment. By Robert Langreth
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The grocery delivery startup added 300,000 workers in eight weeks, but Covid-19 is still overtaking it in more ways than one. By Ellen Huet and Lizette Chapman
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If you want to explore mining opportunities or get word on Kim Jong Un’s health, you start with Alejandro Cao de Benós. He’s only 6,000 miles from Pyongyang. By Josh Dean
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A decade of miscalculation turned a juggernaut into just another middling company. And that was before the pandemic. By Kevin Crowley and Bryan Gruley
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The city where it all began takes its first, hesitant steps toward normalcy. By Sharon Chen and Matthew Campbell, with Claire Che and Sarah Chen
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Carnival's cruise executives knew earlier than most that they had a Covid-19 problem. They kept the party going as long as possible. By Austin Carr and Chris Palmer
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Eric Yuan built Zoom into a tech unicorn in the unflashy business of enterprise communications. Then, suddenly, the world needed it to be something else. By Drake Bennett and Nico Grant
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Renowned researcher David Ho is leading a team of aggressive young scientists racing to beat the coronavirus. By Robert Langreth and Susan Berfield
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3M meets the crisis it's been preparing for. By Bryan Gruley and Rick Clough
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Is it the farmer who pays $800,000 for it—or the company that won't let the farmer get under the hood? By Peter Waldman and Lisa Mulvany
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The dairy farm of your imagination is disappearing. By Monte Reel
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Tala and other startups are flooding Kenya with apps offering high-interest loans. Are they empowering the poor or profiting from desperation? By Zeke Faux
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Texas-based JSW Steel, a big fan of the president’s tariffs, is suing to be exempted from them. By Bryan Gruley and Joe Deaux
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The time I sabotaged my editor with ransomware I bought for $150 on the dark web. By Drake Bennett
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Betting against Tesla is a really bad look. By Dana Hull
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Michael Milken’s protégé is at the top of the private equity food chain. By Caleb Melby and Heather Perlberg
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Besieged by sex abuse claims, America's Catholic churches are shifting assets and filing for Chapter 11. By Josh Saul
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Watching global market forces at work in the far reaches of Madagascar. By Monte Reel
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It took Carlos Ghosn 20 years to reach the apex of global business—and just a few months to lose it all. By Matthew Campbell, Kae Inoue, and Ania Nussbaum
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How Silicon Valley’s biggest companies fooled millions of people into letting temp workers listen in on their most intimate moments. By Austin Carr, Matt Day, Sarah Frier, and Mark Gurman
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Can the company stay true to “don’t be evil” and still do business with the U.S. military? By Joshua Brustein and Mark Bergen
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Before there was recycling, there was the rag trade. By Adam Minter
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Disney CEO Bob Iger is going out on one last huge bet. By Devin Leonard
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The country’s largest health insurer is giving apartments to homeless people—not as an act of charity, but to drive down the extraordinary cost of caring for them. By John Tozzi
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Is the superblock a roadmap to an endless traffic jam or the blueprint for a pedestrian paradise? By Wes Enzinna
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Plastic Bank is keeping trash out of the oceans—and bringing people into the financial system via recycled bottles. By Sheridan Prasso
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Juul’s wildly successful, very Silicon Valley business has a serious bug. By Lauren Etter, Ben Elgin, and Ellen Huet
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Tesla’s Autopilot could save the lives of millions. It will kill a few of us first. By Zachary R. Mider
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Tech’s most controversial startup, founded by a 27-year-old gamer and backed by Trump’s favorite billionaire, makes attack drones. By Joshua Brustein
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Ireland’s Kerrygold has conquered America’s kitchens with its bright-yellow butter made from milk from grass-fed cows. By Elizabeth Dunn
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A wealthy businessman rides a wave of discontent to the country’s highest office, concentrates power in his hands, and cozies up to Putin. This time, though, there are horses. By Matthew Campbell and Terrence Edwards
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CEO Steve Easterbrook is leading McDonald's into the age of Code. By Thomas Buckley and Leslie Patton
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To reach its electric, self-driving future, GM has to overcome challenges. Like strikes. And tech that works, And finding a market. By David Welch and Bryan Gruley
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The company’s $63 billion purchase of Monsanto looks increasingly like an epic own goal. By Caroline Winter and Tim Loh
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LaCroix was once the darling of sparkling waters. Today it’s struggling against a crowded market and a raft of lawsuits. By Lauren Etter and Craig Giammona
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Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat can't make fake burgers fast enough. By Deena Shanker
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Hong Kong’s demonstrators have one big issue: Their city’s fate when China fully takes over in 28 years. By Matthew Campbell
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Avoiding digital snoops takes more than throwing money at the problem, but that part can be really fun. By Joel Stein
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Media behemoths want to conquer a realm now dominated by the likes of Netflix. Think The Hunger Games. By Felix Gillette and Gerry Smith
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After a slow start, the presidential candidate is gaining momentum by pushing her party to embrace bold, left-wing ideas that could beat Trump at his own game— or cost Democrats everything. By Joshua Green
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Seven years ago, Jeff Bezos started an ambitious effort to rid the world of checkout lines. Has Amazon Go invented a new retail paradigm or a ridiculously expensive way to sell lunch? By Brad Stone and Matt Day
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How did thieves steal a valuable collection of scaled-down locomotives from a train club? Why did the case go cold? And who is “Jamie”? By Austin Carr
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At the height of the drug wars, Baruch Vega won the trust of American cops, Colombian cartel bosses, and coked-up hit men. Was he the ultimate spy or the ultimate con man? By Zeke Faux
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He was the Cyborg Bandit and the Elephant Man Bandit, perpetrator of a 14-month, 30-bank robbing spree. He was also a former Boeing engineer with a raging heroin problem. By Josh Dean
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The $15 billion company needs even more pot. By Susan Berfield and Kristine Owram
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Neuroscientists used to be an endangered species, but the hunt for cyborg implants and AI has made them sought-after stars. By Sarah McBride
and Ashlee Vance
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The National Institutes of Health and the FBI are purging Chinese scientists from U.S. research institutions. Civil liberties issues aside, this is no way to cure cancer. By Peter Waldman
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Sea captain Nicholas Sloane says he’s ready to lasso 125 million tons of ice and bring it home. By Caroline Winter
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The world is full of innovations more important than ad algorithms. You just need to look outside Silicon Valley. By Ashlee Vance
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One-time treatments appear to be curing once-incurable patients like “bubble boy” Omarion Jordan. Most people can’t afford them. By Michelle Cortez
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The rich know how to keep their money secret. Gabriel Zucman knows how to find it. By Ben Steverman
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Pro-capitalist scholars are China’s latest public enemies. By Matthew Campbell and Peter Martin
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W.L. Gore, one of the world’s most innovative companies, is hunting for new product lines—and reinventing itself in the process. By Drake Bennett
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Microsoft, that blue screen of irrelevance, is bigger than Amazon, Apple, and everybody else for now. How’d that happen?By Austin Carr and Dina Bass
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He spent years scrimping and saving. But without a will, where’s his money going? By Claire Martin
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We may be able to protect our food from global warming. But what will it taste like? By Christopher Flavelle
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Somehow, a strange and brazen corporate fraud case preceded a breakthrough in wearable tech: A hearing aid that’s also a fitness tracker, a health monitor, a fall detector, and a near-instantaneous translator. By Josh Dean
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Thousands of Dominicans are hunting for a treasure that may not exist. By Joe Nocera
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Do the impending IPOs of Uber, Pinterest, Airbnb, and others
mean the bull market is ending?
By Michael P. Regan
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Meituan remade life in China’s cities with 600,000 people delivering meals and other services. Now it just has to outlast the country’s biggest internet giant
By Lulu Chen, David Ramli, and Peter Elstrom
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