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The Associated Press is launching an NFT marketplace this month, mining a trove of photos to fund its news business

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A microphone from the Associated Press (AP). Chan Long Hei/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The Associated Press is launching an ...

The 23 most popular books of the past year, according to Goodreads members

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‘Yellowstone’ is a massive hit and its creator is making 7 other series. Here are all the details.

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“Yellowstone.” Paramount Network “Yellowstone’s” season four finale was the biggest cable telecast since 2017.  It’s not the only TV show ...

The US is spending billions of dollars deepening port harbors to make room for ‘mega’ container ships that are only getting bigger

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Yu Fangping / Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images Container ships more than doubled in size over the past decade to ...

5 million Americans are staying home from work as Omicron threatens to set back the economic recovery

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A man takes a COVID-19 test at Sydney International Airport on November 28, 2021. James D. Morgan/Getty Images Millions of ...

Billionaire ‘Bond King’ Jeff Gundlach rings the recession alarm, says bitcoin is hugely overvalued, and warns against investing in China

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Jeff Gundlach. REUTERS / Jessica Rinaldi Jeff Gundlach said the Federal Reserve could cause a recession if it tightened its ...

Student debt can pile up for borrowers who attend for-profit schools — and Biden has yet to reinstate a rule that would help prevent that

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Getty Images Obama created a rule that punishes for-profit colleges with a high student debt-to-earnings ratio. Betsy DeVos repealed that ...

Putin defends sending troops into Kazakhstan as the US and Russia begin talks over Ukraine

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Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he speaks during a video emergency meeting of the CSTO focused on the situation ...

The S&P 500 has historically seen returns slashed in times of Fed tightening. Here’s what that means and which stock sectors investors should consider, according to Morgan Stanley.

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Spencer Platt/Getty Images The stock market is set for ...

1,700 new housing units coming to downtown Durham area, including vacant Fayette Place

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One of the proposals submitted for the blighted Fayette Place was from the Durham Global Equity Project’s “Hayti Reborn,” led ...

1,700 new housing units coming to downtown Durham area, including vacant Fayette Place

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One of the proposals submitted for the blighted Fayette Place was from the Durham Global Equity Project’s “Hayti Reborn,” led ...

If you received Advanced Child Tax Credit payments or a third stimulus check in 2021, keep an eye out for mail from the IRS

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Hold onto Letter 6419 in the mail from the IRS for tax season. Kate Sept/Getty Images Advanced Child Tax Credit ...

Paypal says it is looking into developing a dollar-backed stablecoin as payments giant boosts crypto efforts

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PayPal headquarters on April 9, 2018 in San Jose, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Paypal is looking into developing a stablecoin, ...

UK fintechs smashed funding records in 2021: Why they’ll do it again this year

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UK fintechs see a record-breaking year in 2021, raising $11.6 billion n funds across 713 deals. Mammoth funding rounds drove ...

Public.com review: Commission-free trading and community investing features

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Public offers commission-free trading, community investing features, and much more. Public.com; Alyssa Powell/Insider Personal Finance Insider writes about products, strategies, ...

US stocks slide as investors eye inflation data and assess Fed policy path

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AP Photo/Richard Drew The Nasdaq Composite slumped Monday and the S&P 500 was headed for a fifth straight fall.  The ...

TikTok is testing its own ‘retweet’ function, but it’s very different to Twitter’s

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The videos you share will also only appear to your mutual followers, those people who follow you back. SOPA Images ...

Lithuania paid a Guantánamo Bay detainee $113,000 for letting the CIA torture him in a black site there

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A composite image showing an undated photo of Abu Zubaydah and a drawing he did of his torture at a ...

10 things before the opening bell

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Getty Images Welcome to 10 Things Before the Opening Bell. If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Plus, ...

Trump praises right-wing site that helped to seed the conspiracy theory that the FBI is to blame for the Capitol riot

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Then-President Donald Trump with supporters on January 6, 2021, before the Capitol riot. Samuel Corum/Getty Images Trump heaped praise on ...

Disney is hiring people to up its theme parks’ TikTok game

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Visitors pose for a selfie at the Disneyland Resort on April 30, 2021 in Anaheim, California Christian Thompson/Disneyland Resort via ...

Dozens of developments are changing Chapel Hill. Here is a look.

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Taller buildings, more apartments and office projects are transforming some parts of the college town. Powered by WPeMatico

Dozens of developments are changing Chapel Hill. Here is a look.

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Taller buildings, more apartments and office projects are transforming some parts of the college town. Powered by WPeMatico

China’s Covid flare-ups and lockdowns are disrupting port and chip factory operations, hitting the supply chain — again

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China is grappling with COVID-19 outbreaks in various cities. Tong Yu/China News Service/Getty Images COVID-19 outbreaks in China come on ...

Panasonic is the latest Japanese company to break with Japan’s workaholic culture and offer a 4-day work week

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Japan is known for its intense corporate culture. Charly Triballeau/AFP Corporate life in Japan can be so intense that dying ...

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said January 6 was ‘interference with the lawful transfer of power using violence’ — the definition of an insurrection — but refrains from using the word

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Governor Asa Hutchinson, R-Ark., appears on “Meet the Press” in Washington, D.C., Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal ...

Rep. Jim Jordan becomes the second member of Congress to say he won’t cooperate with the January 6 select committee investigation

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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) speaks during a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on May 19, 2021. Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty ...

Negotiating with Manchin is like playing on an ‘Etch A Sketch’ because his opinion changes based on the last person he talked to, Democrats say

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Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) speaks with Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) (L), before a Senate Appropriations ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tests positive for COVID-19

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seen at Jacobi Hospital in the Morris Park neighborhood on June 03, 2021 in the Bronx borough of ...

Sen. Jon Ossoff set to introduce bill barring members of Congress from trading individual stocks: report

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Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Sen. Ossoff is set to introduce a bill that would bar members ...