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• Workers are seeking unions at Starbucks, Dollar General and Amazon locations

  01-01-1970 01:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Shellie Parsons never thought she'd be supporting an effort to win union representation atthe Dollar General store where she's worked for a bit more than a year.
  
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• What's at stake as book publishing merger faces antitrust trial

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  A version of this article first appeared in the "Reliable Sources" newsletter. You can sign up for free right here.
  
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• What we learned this week in the trial of Elizabeth Holmes

  01-01-1970 01:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  One witness occupied the stand for the better part of week seven in the criminal trial of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. For two days straight, jurors heard testimony from former Theranos insider Daniel Edlin, who was a friend of Holmes' brother and worked at the failed blood testing startup for five years.
  
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• Walmart, Citi, Disney, McDonald's and others pledge to abolish stigma of cancer at work

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  After having surgery to remove a small cancerous tumor from his neck last year, Publicis Groupe CEO Arthur Sadoun decided to tell his employees, clients and shareholders of his condition. He still needed to undergo radiation and chemotherapy, and explained to them what that would mean for his work schedule.
  
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• Verizon is raising prices on older cell phone plans

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  Verizon is raising the prices on some of its older cell phone plans, the company confirmed to CNN on Monday. The move is part of a broader effort to get more of its customer base on 5G plans.
  
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• US Customs and Border Protection investigating an unofficial challenge coin depicting Haitian migrant incident

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  An unofficial challenge coin depicting the infamous image of an agent on horseback confronting a Haitian migrant is being investigated by US Customs and Border Protection's Office of Professional Responsibility, according to agency spokesperson Luis Miranda.
  
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• Toblerone can no longer claim to be Swiss-made

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  Toblerone bars, sold in over 100 countries, can no longer be called Swiss chocolate because the brand's US owner is moving some production out of Switzerland.
  
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• Three people killed in North Carolina hotel shooting

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  Three people were killed and two others injured in a shooting at a Fayetteville, North Carolina hotel Saturday.
  
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• This developer is happy that new home construction is falling

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  Recent headlines point to a slumping US housing market — as mortgage rates average near 7%, an increasing number of potential homebuyers are finding it difficult to finance homes.
  
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• This billionaire sold his apartment to buy bitcoin. Now he runs the world's largest crypto exchange

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao is once again in the global spotlight, this time as the self-appointed white knight of crypto as the industry is embroiled in crisis.
  
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• Sonia Sotomayor says she and Clarence Thomas share a 'common understanding about people and kindness'

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  As the Supreme Court prepares for the end of the most tumultuous term in decades, and the justices race to issue opinions on highly divisive issues, Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared before a liberal audience in Washington on Thursday and discussed her relationship with her ideological opposite: Justice Clarence Thomas.
  
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• Some good news on inflation: Wholesale prices rose at a slower pace than expected last month

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  A key measure of inflation, wholesale prices, rose by 8% in October from a year before, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  
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• Some Democrats fear a 2020 repeat as cash flows to long-shot candidates

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  Marcus Flowers makes it perfectly clear why he is running for Congress: The Georgia Democrat wants to unseat Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the attention-grabbing, conspiracy-pushing Republican who fills Democrats with rage.
  
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• SiriusXM to cut 8% of workforce, eliminating 475 jobs

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  Satellite radio giant SiriusXM is laying off 475 people, or about 8% of its workforce, as part of a broad restructuring.
  
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• She Could Become America's First Black Female Governor

  01-01-1970 01:00 via rss.cnn.com
  Stacey acknowledges she is not like what has preceded her, but she believes it is those differences that will carry her to victory.
  
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• Republican senators ask US intelligence chief for evidence behind latest assessment of Covid-19 pandemic origins

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  Eight Republican senators are pressing Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to provide them with the raw materials that informed the intelligence community's latest assessment on the origins of Covid-19, according to a letter they sent Haines on Monday.
  
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• Republican nominee for Maryland attorney general hosted 9/11 conspiracy radio shows

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  The Republican Party's nominee for Maryland attorney general hosted a series of five radio shows in 2006 devoted to arguing in support of 9/11 conspiracy theories questioning if the terror attack was the work of an "elite bureaucrat" who had demolition charges in every building in New York City and even suggesting if those who died after a hijacked plane hit the Pentagon were killed elsewhere.
  
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• Police chief placed on unpaid leave for telling officers about 'clinic' to obtain Covid vaccine cards without getting the shots

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  A North Carolina police chief has been placed on unpaid leave and probation for telling officers about a "clinic" that would issue them a Covid-19 vaccination card without actually receiving the shot, local officials said.
  
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• Paul Manafort agrees to pay $3.15 million to settle case with US government

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  Paul Manafort has agreed to pay $3.15 million he owes to the US government over misrepresentations he made on his tax returns almost a decade ago, bringing to a close the former Trump campaign chairman's financial tangles in court.
  
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• Mississippi enacts ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  Transgender minors in Mississippi can no longer receive gender-affirming care in the state after its Republican governor signed a bill Tuesday that prohibits health care professionals from providing both hormone treatments and surgical procedures.
  
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• Little Leaguer injured after falling off bunk bed is expected to make a full recovery, doctor says

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  Easton "Tank" Oliverson is expected to make a full recovery after falling from a bunk bed and fracturing his skull, according to doctors at Geisinger Janet Weis Children's Hospital in Danville, Pennsylvania.
  
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• India is set to become the world's most populous country. Can it create enough jobs?

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  India will overtake China this year to become the world's most populous country.
  
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• Hot box detectors didn't stop the East Palestine derailment. Research shows another technology might have

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  A failing, flaming wheel bearing doomed the rail car that derailed and created a catastrophe in East Palestine earlier this month, but researchers have offered a solution to the faulty detectors that experts say could have averted the disaster unfolding in the small Ohio town.
  
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• Florida Senate pauses review of state attorney's suspension by Ron DeSantis

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  The Florida state Senate will pause its proceedings to remove state attorney Andrew Warren, who was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis for his pledge not to prosecute certain cases, according to a letter penned by Senate President Wilton Simpson on Wednesday.
  
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• FBI investigating 'suspicious death' of woman on Carnival cruise ship

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  The FBI is investigating the "suspicious death" of a female passenger onboard the Carnival Sunshine cruise ship, the agency announced in a news release Sunday.
  
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• Facebook Papers paint a damning picture of the company's role in insurrection

  01-01-1970 01:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Just days after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6th, Facebook's Chief Operational Officer Sheryl Sandberg downplayed her company's role in what had happened.
  
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• Covid-19 killed fewer people in the US in 2022, but early data suggests it was still a leading cause of death

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  Covid-19 has killed more than 1 million people in the United States since the start of the pandemic, and life expectancy has been cut by nearly 2.5 years since 2020.
  
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• Body of 51-year-old woman found in duffel bag in Queens blocks from her home

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  The body of a 51-year-old woman was found inside a duffel bag on a street corner in Queens, New York, on Saturday and a trail of blood stretched from there to her nearby home, according to a spokesperson for the New York Police Department.
  
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• America's largest store is getting a boost from inflation

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  Wealthier customers pinched by inflation are switching to Walmart for groceries, boosting sales at America's largest retailer.
  
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• After a record warm February, winter cold is returning

  01-01-1970 01:00 via cnn.com
  
  For the last several weeks, high temperatures have been breaking records. Many of you may have kissed winter goodbye and already moved on to spring. But don't get too used to the warmer weather. We could see a huge shift in temperatures next week, and this one won't be subtle.
  
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