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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Warren Buffett Reveals He Stepped Down After Finally Feeling His Age
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Exclusive | Warren Buffett Reveals He Stepped Down After Finally Feeling His Age
The legendary investor, 94, opens up about his decision to hand the top job to Greg Abel.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Dow Slips; Walmart to Raise Prices Due to Tariffs Oil prices sink after President Trump touts Iran talks
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Stock Market Today: Dow Opens Lower; Walmart Says It Will Raises Prices — Live Updates
Trump’s tariffs and trade deals continue to affect global markets. Follow along for live updates on the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
UnitedHealth Group Is Under Criminal Investigation for Possible Medicare Fraud
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Exclusive | UnitedHealth Group Is Under Criminal Investigation for Possible Medicare Fraud
The company’s stock has declined over its financial performance and the sudden replacement of its CEO.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s emergency request to pause foreign-aid funding, refusing to suspend a lower court order that required the government to pay contractors nearly $2 billion for work they already have performed.
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Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid to Delay Foreign-Aid Payouts
A divided Supreme Court declined to suspend a lower court’s order that directed the Trump administration to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign-aid funding.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump’s Tariff War Puts CEOs on the Front Lines
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Trump’s Tariff War Puts CEOs on the Front Lines
Executives in banking, construction, autos and retail wonder how long tariffs will last; “your guess is as good as mine.”
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Have we ruined sex? Five writers ask whether society has lost its way when it comes to the most intimate of human acts. trib.al/jX6m7Wx
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Essay | Have We Ruined Sex?
Five writers ask whether society has lost its way when it comes to the most intimate of human acts.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
What does a boss wear to work today? We grilled eight executives—and formulated tips to help any man dress more authoritatively in 2024 on.wsj.com/4eU8jXA
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How to Dress Like a Boss in 2024, According to Powerful Men
You can no longer channel power by simply pulling on a suit and tie. We grilled eight executives—and formulated tips to help any man dress more authoritatively in today’s workplace.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Could your sex life be better? Try this sex advice from seniors. on.wsj.com/4g8BqaA
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The Sex Advice We Should Take From Grandparents
People in their 60s, 70s and beyond have practice keeping the spark alive. Here’s how they do it.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
As the Biden administration seeks to broker an end-of-term peace deal in the Middle East, it is bringing along a surprising back-seat partner: Donald Trump
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Biden’s Surprising Middle East Peace Strategy: Working With Trump
The alignment could produce mutual benefits: for Biden, a legacy-defining foreign-policy win before he departs; for Trump, one less global crisis to handle.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Who’s to blame for America’s peanut allergy epidemic? Well-meaning pediatricians, writes Dr. Marty Makary
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Essay | How Pediatricians Created the Peanut Allergy Epidemic
By recommending that children avoid exposure to peanuts until age 3, doctors inadvertently turned a rare issue into a major health problem.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
For novelist Charles Bock, becoming a widower meant discovering the “pulsing virtual cesspool” of online hookups
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Essay | My Wife’s Death Led Me Into the World of Online Hookups
For novelist Charles Bock, becoming a widower meant discovering the “pulsing virtual cesspool” of Ashley Madison.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The cancer that doctors no longer want to call cancer on.wsj.com/496RabV
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The Cancer That Doctors Don’t Want to Call Cancer
Renaming the lowest-risk prostate cancer would cut down on overly aggressive treatment, some doctors say.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Could your sex life be better? Try this sex advice from seniors. on.wsj.com/3Zfv6sf
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The Sex Advice We Should Take From Grandparents
People in their 60s, 70s and beyond have practice keeping the spark alive. Here’s how they do it.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
What does a boss wear to work today? We grilled eight executives—and formulated tips to help any man dress more authoritatively in 2024 on.wsj.com/40VoLUg
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How to Dress Like a Boss in 2024, According to Powerful Men
You can no longer channel power by simply pulling on a suit and tie. We grilled eight executives—and formulated tips to help any man dress more authoritatively in today’s workplace.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Breaking: Donald Trump named hedge-fund manager Scott Bessent to lead the Treasury Department
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Trump Picks Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary
The president-elect has selected the hedge-fund manager to lead the Treasury, elevating one of his most vocal supporters in the finance world.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Richard Whitacre transferred his entire 401(k) into an account offering a ‘guaranteed’ 15.25% return. Will he ever see his money again?
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‘I Don’t Know Where to Turn or What to Do.’ His $763,094 Retirement Fund Is in Limbo.
Richard Whitacre transferred his entire 401(k) into an account offering a ‘guaranteed’ 15.25% return. Will he ever see his money again?
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Arrest warrants issued for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes in Gaza threaten to deepen the country's global isolation
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ICC Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant Deepen Israel’s Isolation
The move by the International Criminal Court will complicate travel by Israel’s prime minister and former defense minister, who would risk arrest in the court’s member countries.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Exclusive: The Biden administration will block imports from more than two dozen Chinese companies over their alleged ties to forced labor in the country's Xinjiang region.
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Exclusive | U.S. to Add Nearly 30 Chinese Companies to Forced-Labor Blacklist
The raft of additions is the single-largest expansion of a list created to combat alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
China’s vast bureaucracy wants to liberate its workers from drudgery by slashing red tape and holding fewer meetings
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China’s Plan B to Save the Economy: A Crusade Against Busywork
When China’s top leaders pledged to act more aggressively to stimulate economic growth, they rounded off their remedies with a political order: Have fewer meetings and cut the busywork.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
An American investor with a history of dealmaking in Russia has asked the U.S. government to allow him to bid on the sabotaged Nord Stream Pipeline 2 if it comes up for auction
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Exclusive | A Miami Financier Is Quietly Trying to Buy Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline
The investor says a deal for the Russian pipeline would serve long-term U.S. interests.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
From @WSJopinion: Dick Durbin is pushing a bill in Congress’s lame-duck session that would shift the cost of processing card transactions from retailers to consumers. If it passes, rewards programs could vanish as they did with debit cards.
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Opinion | Dick Durbin’s Plan to ‘Fix’ Credit Cards
Rewards points could vanish if Congress caps transaction fees.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
From @WSJopinion: Can Trump bust up the Beltway? He seems serious about pulling the plug on the swamp. Like everything else about his presidency, we’ll see, writes @DanHenninger.
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Opinion | Can Trump Bust Up the Beltway?
Bureaucracies kept winning because no one paid attention to them. Until now.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Theatergoers worry about being able to watch the "Wicked" movie in peace. One fan rented a theater and set rules. "Unless you have won a Tony," she says, "no singing will be permitted."
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She Rented a Theater for Watching ‘Wicked.’ Then Came the Background Checks.
‘Unless you have won a Tony,’ a ‘Wicked’ fan tells friends, ‘no singing will be permitted’
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Elon Musk took to X to reignite a public dispute with fellow billionaire and space-industry rival Jeff Bezos
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Elon Musk Jabs at Billionaire Rival Jeff Bezos Over Trump
The world’s two richest men got into it on Musk’s social-media platform X over the election.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Brazilian federal police accused former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 of his allies of plotting a coup to stop President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from taking office in 2023
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Brazilian Police Accuse Former President Bolsonaro of Plotting Coup
The sweeping charges against the former leader and 36 of his allies come after police uncovered a plan to assassinate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
From @WSJopinion: The shock of the election results demonstrated how many Americans are willing to vote their values at the ballot box even as they remain unwilling to explain that vote even to a pollster, much less to a friend, writes John Masko
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Opinion | Shy Conservatives Keep the Left in Its Bubble
Otherwise reasonable people believe crazy things because nobody dares challenge them.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Apple has proposed investing $100 million in Indonesia after the country banned sales of its latest iPhone 16 handsets over what officials say is the company’s nonfulfillment of local investment requirements
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Apple Offers $100 Million Investment in Indonesia to Lift iPhone 16 Ban
The amount the U.S. tech giant has offered is 10 times higher than an initial plan to invest $10 million and will be invested over the next two years.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Western powers say it's time for China, Saudi Arabia and other wealthy countries to join them in pledging climate finance for poorer nations
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Is China a ‘Developing’ Country? That’s the Trillion-Dollar Question at U.N. Climate Talks
Officials from developed and developing countries agree that more than $1 trillion a year is needed to finance poorer nations’ response to climate change—but not on who should pay up.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Tools for Humanity named X’s former vice president of global affairs as head of policy, the latest executive from what was formerly Twitter to join the startup co-founded by OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman
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Sam Altman’s Startup Appoints Former X Executive as Policy Chief
Tools for Humanity named X’s former vice president of global affairs Nick Pickles as its head of policy, the latest executive from what was formerly Twitter to join the startup.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Heard on the Street: Every new market mania needs new metrics to attract investors and explain the reason for its existence. Here’s one for the bitcoin boom.
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MicroStrategy’s Magical Bitcoin Buying Machine Uses Some Wacky Math
Citing “yield” as a performance measure is likely to confuse some investors already overpaying for its stock.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Exclusive: A senior North Korean general was wounded in a Ukrainian strike in the Kursk area
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Exclusive | Senior North Korean General Wounded in Recent Ukrainian Strike, Western Official Says
It is the first time that Western officials have confirmed that a high-ranking North Korean military officer has become a casualty in the escalating Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Critics say the pro-Harris Future Forward PAC didn’t share enough with allies and waited too long to spend its huge war chest
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Too Little, Too Late: Pro-Harris PAC Takes Flak for Spending Decisions
Critics say the secretive Future Forward didn’t share enough with allies and waited too long to spend its huge war chest.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Watch: Dr. Martens are everywhere. But some vintage pairs are marked ‘Dr. Martens by Solovair’—revealing a quiet history between two bootmakers that have gone down very different paths.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Breaking: The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, alleging they committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the offensive in the Gaza Strip
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ICC Issues War-Crimes Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu, Gallant Over Gaza War
The court alleged the Israeli prime minister and former defense minister committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The auditioning for President-elect Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary is more than just great theater, @greg_ip writes
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Trump’s Growth and Trade Agendas Are at Odds. His Economic Team Will Point to the Winner.
Tax cuts, deregulation and budget deficits would push up the dollar and worsen the trade deficit, while steep tariffs would undermine growth.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Scammers are altering checks, depositing them and quickly withdrawing cash before banks flag the payments as suspicious, according to bank executives and their antifraud consultants
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We Can’t Give Up Paper Checks, and That’s a Gold Mine for Scammers
Scammers are altering checks, depositing them and quickly withdrawing cash before banks flag the payments as suspicious. They frequent Telegram, a popular messaging app, Facebook and TikTok to promote...
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
How the coming Trump presidency is likely to affect automakers and car buyers
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Auto Industry Braces for Whiplash as Trump Takes Power
Elon Musk becomes a wild card for automakers after the Tesla chief executive emerges as an adviser to the president-elect.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
CoverGirl was built on decades of glossy magazine ads featuring stars like Christie Brinkley, Tyra Banks, Taylor Swift and Rihanna. With sales sliding for drugstore makeup brands, its growth hinges on thousands of social-media influencers.
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CoverGirl Makes Big Bet on Influencers to Revive Brand Built With Supermodels
Coty turns to social-media influencers for growth of its drugstore makeup brand and ‘clean’ beauty pioneer navigating a slowdown in U.S. sales.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It’s getting harder to find a traditional bank offering: safe-deposit boxes
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No One Can Find Safe-Deposit Boxes Anymore
As banks close branches, many are ditching a traditional service that they consider to be outdated.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Among households that put up Christmas trees, about three-quarters opt for artificial ones. Here’s how one seller of real Christmas trees tries to compete.
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The Economics of Selling Christmas Trees
The key is to make buying an experience, rather than just something to be done as quickly as possible.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Some of Hasbro’s bestselling toys could get pricier if Donald Trump implements stiff tariffs on Chinese imports
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How the Maker of Nerf Guns Will Navigate Trump’s Tariffs on China
The president-elect’s potential levies add urgency for Hasbro to find new factories for its toys and games.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The dream of a $25,000 electric car for U.S. drivers is in trouble, Tim Higgins writes
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The Withering Dream of a Cheap American Electric Car
“That market sucks,” Lucid Chief Executive Peter Rawlinson says, as Elon Musk pivots Tesla to driverless cars.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The technology driving ChatGPT is capable of so much more. What’s coming next will make talking bots look like mere distractions.
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A Powerful AI Breakthrough Is About to Transform the World
The technology driving ChatGPT is capable of so much more. What’s coming next will make talking bots look like mere distractions.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It will take at least $1 million to win an auction for a banana duct-taped to a wall. The buyer also has to replace the fruit when it rots.
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Someone Just Paid $6.2 Million for a Banana Duct-Taped to a Wall
Sotheby’s auctioned the artwork by Maurizio Cattelan on Wednesday; Piece sold to Justin Sun, founder of cryptocurrency platform Tron, who plans to eat it
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
BREAKING: Google should be forced to sell Chrome to help end its online search monopoly, the Justice Department said
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Google Should Be Forced to Sell Chrome Browser, Justice Department Says
A spinoff would be a major blow to Google following its loss in the antitrust trial.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A few of us have reasons to carry that extra-heavy bag onto the flight. Many of us don’t. Next time do your fellow passengers a favor and consider checking it.
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Do Us All a Favor and Check That Chunky Carry-On
This simple step for faster boarding is one of the easiest ways to help your plane take off on time.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The North Koreans sent to fight for Russia have been dismissed as second-rate soldiers. But defectors who once served in the same military warn that the troops would do anything for Kim Jong Un. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4fKgHtO
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Why North Korean Soldiers Are Prepared to Die in Russia
Nearly all would raise their hands to go, ex-military defectors explain, owing to regime loyalty, promise of higher status and a glimpse of the outside world.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The current generation of college students is facing a challenge that those who came before never had to worry about: They’ll be competing with AI for jobs. What can they do to get ready?
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How Students Can AI-Proof Their Careers
Artificial intelligence is going to eliminate a lot of jobs in the future. It’s possible to reduce the risk that it will be yours.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Breaking: Billionaire Gautam Adani was charged with orchestrating a $250 million bribery scheme to secure lucrative solar-energy supply contracts on.wsj.com/3AEdE7y
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Indian Billionaire Gautam Adani Charged in $250 Million Bribery Scheme
The Justice Department alleged that he and other executives paid off Indian government officials to secure contracts.
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The Wall Street Journal @thewallstreet.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
America’s most famous homemaker talks about her Netflix documentary, lessons from Snoop Dogg and what she thinks of the "trad wife" trend 🔗 on.wsj.com/40Q1enE
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Martha Stewart Still Doesn’t Feel Understood
America’s most famous homemaker talks about her Netflix documentary, lessons from Snoop Dogg and what she thinks of the “trad wife” trend.
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