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SAS in line for $79M award, as US Supreme Court leaves injunction against WPL in place

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Over a decade, SAS has accused WPL of illegally reverse-engineering its analytics software. Now WPL must pay the North Carolina ...

80% of adults want Biden to act fast on small business aid and stimulus checks, new survey finds

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Morning Consult poll finds that four in five Americans want Biden to prioritize small business aid and stimulus checks. Respondents ...

SAS in line for $79M award, as US Supreme Court leaves injunction against WPL in place

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Over a decade, SAS has accused WPL of illegally reverse-engineering its analytics software. Now WPL must pay the North Carolina ...

More people moved to Tennessee, Texas, and Florida than any other states in 2020, according to data from U-Haul – see the full ranking

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UHaul moving truck parked in a suburban neighborhood in San Ramon, California, wide angle, February 2, 2020. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images ...

Coherent skyrockets 33% after Lumentum announces $5.7 billion acquisition of rival laser maker

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Coherent. SOPA Images/Getty Images Coherent stock spiked 33% Tuesday after Lumentum announced it will acquire the rival laser maker for ...

‘They were provoked by the president’: Mitch McConnell blames Trump for deadly Capitol riots

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blame President Donald Trump on Tuesday for ...

A man taking a college-entrance exam in Tokyo was disqualified for refusing to keep his mask over his nose

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A woman holds a face mask in her hands. Nico De Pasquale Photography/Getty Images A 49-year-old man in Tokyo was ...

Biden Treasury pick Janet Yellen says additional stimulus and expanded unemployment insurance will provide the ‘biggest bang for the buck’

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Janet Yellen speaks in Wilmington, Delaware, on December 1, 2020. Leah Millis/Reuters Joe Biden’s Treasury pick Janet Yellen faced lawmakers ...

A new, female veteran-owned brewery joins RTP’s suddenly booming beer scene

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Research Triangle Park is becoming known for its beer. New Tobacco Wood taproom promises to add to the vibe. “We’re ...

A new, female veteran-owned brewery joins RTP’s suddenly booming beer scene

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Research Triangle Park is becoming known for its beer. New Tobacco Wood taproom promises to add to the vibe. “We’re ...

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New York just became the biggest city to make LGBT-owned businesses eligible for billions in government contracts for minority entrepreneurs

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A rainbow flag waves in the wind at the Stonewall National Monument outside the Stonewall Inn in New York. Reuters ...

Manufacturing execs at Protolabs explore the unification of lean and digital production strategies

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Metrology Lab for digital scanning as part of the Protolabs quality control process Protolabs Last year accelerated the fact that ...

Trump is starting his last full day in office hiding from the public and plotting to steal Biden’s thunder, as his approval ratings plummet to historic lows

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President Donald Trump. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated on Wednesday, meaning Tuesday is President ...

Biden says he will reverse Trump’s order to lift the coronavirus travel ban

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Getty President-elect Biden has promised to reverse efforts by President Trump in the last days of his presidency to lift ...

10 things you need to know before the opening bell

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Former Federal Reserve Chair, Janet L. Yellen, President- elect Joe Biden pick to be Treasury Secretary Washington Post/Getty Images Welcome ...

Washington state recruits Starbucks to help with its COVID-19 vaccine rollout

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People walk outside Starbucks in midtown as New York City moves into Phase 3. Noam Galai/Getty Images Washington state has ...

Activist investor Ryan Cohen scores 300% gain on GameStop stock in under 6 months

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Ryan Cohen Activist investor Ryan Cohen has notched a 300% gain on his GameStop investment. The Chewy cofounder spent $76 ...

Black women say their natural hair can get them fired. That may change soon in NC.

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Durham could become the first city in NC to prohibit discrimination based on hair style. Powered by WPeMatico

Black women say their natural hair can get them fired. That may change soon in NC.

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Durham could become the first city in NC to prohibit discrimination based on hair style. Powered by WPeMatico

Inside the low-key life of Asia’s new richest man, who’s known as the ‘lone wolf’ and used to be a journalist

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Zhong Shanshan at a Nongfu Spring product launch conference in February 2015 in Baishan, China. Jiang Xin/VCG via Getty Images ...

10 things in tech you need to know today

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This illustration picture shows social media application logo from Parler displayed on a smartphone with its website in the background. ...

An elite panel of world leaders has called out China for its bungled coronavirus response and is vowing to shore up the fledgling ‘global pandemic alert system’ by May

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World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Fabrice COFFRINI/Getty Images A group of world leaders tasked with leading a ...

Cuomo asked Pfizer to sell its COVID-19 vaccine directly to New York, as the head of the WHO warns of mounting inequities in vaccine distribution

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked Pfizer on Monday to sell its coronavirus vaccine directly to his state. Spencer Platt/Getty ...

Trump is planning to sneak away to Florida instead of attending the Biden inauguration, FAA data reveals

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President Donald Trump boarding Air Force One. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP President Donald Trump appears to be heading south to Mar-a-Lago ...

The man accused of breaking the window Ashli Babbitt tried to climb through when she was shot during the Capitol insurrection has been arrested

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Riots at the US Capitol Building. Michael Nigro/Pacific Press:LightRocket/Getty Chad Barrett Jones, 42, of Coxs Creek, Kentucky, was arrested in ...

Mobile ad tech firm Pocketmath shuts down

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Hi! Welcome to the Insider Advertising daily for January 19. I’m Lauren Johnson, a senior advertising reporter at Business Insider. ...

LA County has suspended air-quality regulations that limit the number of cremations as it handles a ‘backlog’ of bodies from the pandemic

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In this Jan. 12, 2020 file photo, provided by the LA County Dept. of Medical Examiner-Coroner Elizabeth “Liz” Napoles, right, ...

Tell us what Kamala Harris making history as vice president means to you – and the country

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Kamala Harris will be sworn in as vice president on Wednesday. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images On Wednesday, Kamala Harris will make ...

Fox News required its settlement with the family of killed DNC staffer Seth Rich remain undisclosed until after the 2020 election

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A close-up of the Fox News Channel website with a picture of President Donald Trump displayed on a smartphone. Rafael ...