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Trump’s Department of Labor claims without data that states defrauded government

Keith Sonderling sent letters to 53 states and US territories demanding action to “combat waste, fraud, and abuse” within the unemployment insurance program, threatening to withhold administrative funds from states for the...

How the fight over US datacenters is scrambling this state’s politics: ‘We don’t want it’

A controversial haunted house near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, taps into its dark history every fall to scare tens of thousands of visitors. In 1968, a local news station documented appalling conditions for disabled...

SpaceX overtakes Amazon to become world’s fifth most valuable company

SpaceX has overtaken Amazon to become the world’s fifth most valuable company days after its stock market debut. The milestone came as Elon Musk’s company agreed to buy the startup behind the AI-powered...

America’s bull market has entered its manic phase

Options markets show optimism is giving way to euphoria 

Struggling Pizza Hut restaurant chain to be sold in two deals worth $2.7bn

The struggling Pizza Hut restaurant chain will be sold for $2.7bn by parent company Yum! Brands. Yum! Brands said in February that it was considering selling Pizza Hut and the chain looked to...

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