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Trump revels in mass federal firings and jeers at Biden before adoring conservative crowd
President Donald Trump addressed an adoring crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference in suburban Washington on Saturday.
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Highlights of Warren Buffett's annual letter: Advice for Trump, 60 years at Berkshire helm
Warren Buffett opined on a wide range of topics in his much-anticipated annual letter to shareholders, including the U.S. fiscal problems and advice for Trump.
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Germany’s election will usher in new leadership — but might not turn tides for the country's struggling economy
Friedrich Merz has criticized Olaf Scholz on the economy, but experts question if a government led by the Christian Democratic Union would fare much better.
Business
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Shortage of Novo Nordisk's Wegovy and Ozempic drugs is resolved, FDA says
The FDA's decision will threaten the ability of compounding pharmacies to make far cheaper, unbranded versions of the injections over the next few months.
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UnitedHealth's rough stretch continues, with buyouts, a reported DOJ probe and a 23% drop in three months
It extends a tumultuous period for UnitedHealth marked by the killing of a top executive, a costly cyberattack against its subsidiary and high medical costs.
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Once high-flying Bluebird Bio sells itself to private equity after tough times for the gene therapy maker
Bluebird Bio will sell itself to private equity firms Carlyle and SK Capital for about $30 million, the company said Friday.
Technology
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Airlines, banks, casinos, package deliveries, and emergency services around the world are recovering today from what could be "the largest tech outage in history." the root cause was not a foreign agent but linked back to a software update issued by a u-s based cybersecurity firm called "Crowd Strike." Could this have been avoided?
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In London, a mobile phone is stolen every 6 minutes. "If I steal your phone, I'm stealing a thousand dollars," says digital identity expert David Birch. But "If I can get into your bank account, I can steal $100,000. So that's what they really want." So there are important steps to take immediately - including turning off message preview.
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"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in...The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."