Business
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The Week in Business: The Debt Limit and Politics
Credit...Giacomo BagnaraWhat’s Up? (Jan. 15-21) The U.S. Hits Its Debt Ceiling The United States hit its borrowing cap of $31.4…
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As Deepfakes Flourish, Countries Struggle With Response
Deepfake technology — software that allows people to swap faces, voices and other characteristics to create digital forgeries — has…
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Families Struggle as Pandemic Program Offering Free School Meals Ends
A federal benefit guaranteeing free school meals to millions more students has expired as food prices have risen. Many families…
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How the U.S. Government Amassed $31 Trillion in Debt
Two decades of tax cuts, recession responses and bipartisan spending fueled more borrowing — contributing $25 trillion to the total…
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How Smart Are the Robots Getting?
Franz Broseph seemed like any other Diplomacy player to Claes de Graaff. The handle was a joke — the Austrian…
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At Davos, European Distress Over a ‘Made in America’ Law
The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act stirred talk of a trade war, but also proposals for a similar E.U. initiative to…
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The Young Founder Who Fooled JPMorgan, According to JPMorgan
When JPMorgan Chase paid $175 million to acquire a college financial planning company called Frank in September 2021, it heralded…
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Justice Department Investigating Troubled Infant Formula Plant
Abbott shut down production at the plant last year amid “shocking” sanitation lapses, touching off a disruptive infant supply formula…
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Layoffs at Tech Giants Reverse Small Part of Pandemic Hiring Spree
Some of the biggest tech companies have announced tens of thousands of job cuts. But even after the layoffs, their…
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Who wants to live forever?
Countries and companies are facing an aging crisis, and experts say policymakers and business leaders need to rethink how they…