The Saga of North Carolina’s Contaminated Water
The state’s GOP leadership tried to make the state more business-friendly. Now residents are saying their water isn’t safe to drink.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Taking Stock of Yahoo in Its Final Days as a Public Company
Its deal with Verizon is set to close in June, adding to a trend of struggling businesses turning private once again.
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Susan Walsh / AP What Will Trump’s Executive Order Do to H-1B Visas?
The president ordered a review of the controversial program as part of his "Hire American" agenda, opening the way for reforms that could fix the program, or doom it.
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Mike Segar / Reuters What Will Fox News Be Without Its Biggest Star?
The network has fired Bill O'Reilly after his alleged predatory behavior at the company came to light, potentially jeopardizing its status as the king of the cable news.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Bill O'Reilly's Exit From Fox News
The network said its top-rated star will not be returning.
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Kiichiro Sato / AP The Many Ways 'Buy American' Can Harm the Economy
Barring the government from contracting with foreign firms will decrease competition and squander tax dollars.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters The Toll of Wells Fargo's Account Scandal
The fallout has implications not just for the bank’s reputation, but also for its bottom line.
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JASON REDMOND / Reuters Can a Beautiful Website of Facts Change Anybody’s Mind?
Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft chief executive, wants to improve the national political debate with a treasure trove of facts about government. The post-truth age might not be so receptive.
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Toru Hanai / Reuters How Office Culture Can Crush Women’s Ambitions
Women often report less interest in senior roles. But that may be because of how they're treated, not a lack of motivation.
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Osman Orsal / Reuters Could Trump's Financial Ties Have Influenced His Phone Call With Erdogan?
The president’s property in Istanbul looms over his interactions with Turkey’s leader, whether he wants it to or not.
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Mike Blake / Reuters The Silent Crisis of Retail Employment
What to do when department-store jobs—or mining and manufacturing jobs—go away
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Peter Ryan Trump's Interests vs. America's, Reelection-Campaign Edition
The president is already raising money for 2020—and directing it into his businesses’ coffers.
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Darren Hauck / Getty What Is Janesville, Wisconsin, Without General Motors?
Eight years after its GM assembly plant closed, the city of 63,500 is still trying to answer that question.
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Justin Fantl How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All
Will you pay more for those shoes before 7 p.m.? Would the price tag be different if you lived in the suburbs? Standard prices and simple discounts are giving way to far more exotic strategies, designed to extract every last dollar from the consumer.
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Christopher DeLorenzo Puppy Love
The coddling of the American pet
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Justin Fantl How to Trick People Into Saving Money
Inside Walmart’s curious, possibly ingenious effort to get customers to build up their savings accounts
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Bettmann / Getty How the Tax-Filing Process Confuses Americans About Tax Policy
The vexed relationship people have with IRS forms tends to make them more conservative.
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Nam Y. Huh / AP What Would It Take for Customers to Boycott United?
A new poll tested Americans’ threshold for avoiding the airline in the wake of its PR debacle.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters Will Tesla Do to Cars What Apple Did to Smartphones?
The company’s fate rides on the answers to three unresolved questions about the auto industry’s future: driven or self-driving? Electric or gas? Private or shared?
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Justin Fantl Frank and Steven’s Excellent Corporate-Raiding Adventure
Two law professors tried to mimic big activist hedge funds, investing their retirement savings in a small, languishing public company and trying to shake it up. Here’s what happened.
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Nam Y. Huh / AP Why Airlines Can Get Away With Bad Customer Service
As much as other types of companies might want to ignore their lowest-margin patrons, most don’t have that luxury.
