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• US Corn Farmers Sound the Alarm: Most Catastrophic Problem Ever Faced Headed for Crop

  31-01-2023 23:21
  
  Farmers across the country are sounding the alarm on a new law that could spell catastrophe for their businesses, as well as the American economy.
  According to Fox Business, Mexico is set to enact a new law that would ban U.S. imports of genetically modified corn, and many are worried that this could be “the most catastrophic thing to happen to corn farmers.”
  Mexico is the largest buyer of American corn, purchasing more than $10 billion worth of corn from the United States, and most
  
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• DeSantis Says No More 'Zombie Studies,' Announces Proposal to Destroy CRT for Good

  31-01-2023 23:06
  
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday he doesn’t want any state college or university students graduating with degrees in worthless subjects such as “zombie studies.”
  He was speaking about higher education reform at the State College of Florida in Bradenton.
  DeSantis is launching legislative proposals to have Florida state colleges and universities provide “education not indoctrination,” according to material from the governor’s office.
  “The first thing
  
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• Millionaire Bernie Sanders Hosting Event Bashing Capitalism, But He'll Be Sure to Cash In

  31-01-2023 22:52
  
  Millionaire socialist Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is hosting an event to promote his new anti-capitalism book, but he seems unwilling to put his money where his mouth is.
  Sanders has recently released a new book called “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism,” in which, according to the description, the leftist senator, “takes on the billionaire class and speaks blunt truths about our country’s failure to address the destructive nature of a system that
  
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• Super Bowl-Bound QB Jalen Hurts Cites Bible Verse as He Prepares for Biggest Game of His Career

  31-01-2023 22:34
  
  Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts cited his favorite Bible verse after leading his team to the Super Bowl.
  Hurts paraphrased John 13:7 in a post-game news conference Sunday after the Eagles vanquished the San Francisco 49ers in a blowout NFC championship victory.
  The quarterback brought up the saying of Christ in response to a question about his early career — in which he’d slipped in the 2020 NFL draft. Hurts at one point admitted that he didn’t believe the Eagles ev
  
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• Solomon: Another Tesla Spontaneously Combusts - Musk's Company Has Some Critical Lessons to Learn

  31-01-2023 22:29
  
  Many of us have been learning what Elon Musk has known for a long time — that Tesla battery fires are hard to put out.
  A Sacramento highway fire again highlighted this on Saturday, requiring a fire department ladder truck, two fire engines, and a massive 6,000 gallons of water. This was the result of a Tesla Model S spontaneously combusting on Highway 50, causing the kind of catastrophic fire that can leave a Tesla a charred, hot mess.
  There is, of course, a website that tracks every Tesla
  
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• Olympian Dead at 48 After Suffering Bleed on the Brain, Leaves Behind Family of 3

  31-01-2023 22:22
  
  A former member of Australia’s Olympic bobsled team has died as a result of a brain hemorrhage he suffered last week.
  Duncan Pugh was 48, according to Perth Now.
  “Duncan had a catastrophic brain bleed on Tuesday evening 24th January, which sadly left him in an unrecoverable position,” family friend Levi Bristow wrote in a GoFundMe appeal.
  Pugh was kept alive on a ventilator while his family arranged for his organs to be donated, according to Bristow.
  The fundraiser said it was
  
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• Michigan man convicted on federal charges for joining ISIS in Syria

  31-01-2023 21:54 via cnn.com
  
  A Michigan man was convicted in Detroit federal court Monday on charges connected to his years-long stint in Syria training and fighting for the terror group ISIS, the Department of Justice said.
  
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• Ransomware attack closes schools in Nantucket

  31-01-2023 21:51 via cnn.com
  
  A ransomware attack forced the closure Tuesday of four public schools serving 1,700 students on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, the school district's superintendent said in an email to parents.
  
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• After months of scrutiny, FDA proposes redesign of its human food program

  31-01-2023 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  The head of the US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday proposed sweeping changes to the agency's food safety programs in order to protect the US food supply and promote better nutrition.
  
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• DeSantis Fires Warning Shot at Woke Doctors: You Will Lose Your License

  31-01-2023 21:30
  
  He might be well on his way to being the second-most-hated man among the establishment media, but Ron DeSantis doesn’t back down.
  The Florida governor has made that clear over and over again while handling being baited, smeared and outright lied about on liberal media outlets.
  And during a news conference on Tuesday, the Republican delivered a message that even the most liberal elites will have trouble ignoring.
  The attacks on DeSantis have come on multiple fronts — his handling of t
  
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• PayPal will lay off 2,000 workers, or 7% of staff

  31-01-2023 21:17 via cnn.com
  
  PayPal said Tuesday it plans to lay off about 2,000 employees, or roughly 7% of its staff, making it the latest tech firm to announce significant job cuts in recent months amid broader economic uncertainty.
  
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• Maryland bill would subsidize employers that try a 4-day workweek

  31-01-2023 20:57 via cnn.com
  
  In a first-of-its-kind proposal in the United States, some Maryland lawmakers want to subsidize employers that choose to experiment with a 4-day workweek.
  
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• 23-Year-Old College Swimmer Dies Suddenly - No Cause of Death Given

  31-01-2023 20:55
  
  Ty Wells, a recent graduate of the University of Arizona and a member of the university’s swim team, died unexpectedly on Friday. He was 23.
  The cause of his death has not been disclosed, according to the Arizona Daily Star.
  “Several people close to the program [said] that rumors circulating that the death was caused by a motorcycle accident are untrue, and that the Arizona medical examiner is still working to determine the cause of death,” SwimSwam reported.
  A statement posted
  
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• Biden Classified Docs Update: Biden's UPenn Office Was Searched by FBI - Report

  31-01-2023 20:42
  
  The FBI searched President Joe Biden’s former office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington in November, according to a person familiar with the matter, at least a week after his personal lawyers first found classified records there from his time as vice president.
  The discovery of the documents at the office blocks away from the U.S. Capitol led to a search of Biden’s homes, including his residence in Wilmington, Delaware, where lawyers and federal agents found additional classified
  
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• Drollinger: Becoming More Like the 12 - Are You Someone the Lord Can Use Mightily?

  31-01-2023 20:12
  
  Many mature Christians long to be used by God, but what are the qualities God is looking for in us in order to determine to use us mightily?
  Our country desperately needs Christian public servants, and citizens, for that matter, who will turn America upside down!
  Are you someone he can use mightily and extraordinarily? What was Jesus looking for in the 12 disciples he chose to follow him and ultimately turn the world upside down (Acts 17:6)?
  This week’s Bible study, “Becoming More Li
  
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• At least 11 people wounded in Lakeland, Florida, shooting, police say

  31-01-2023 20:06 via cnn.com
  
  The number of victims hurt in Monday's Lakeland, Florida, shooting has increased to eleven after an additional victim self-transported to a hospital, according to Lakeland Police Chief Sam Taylor.
  
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• Tyre Nichols' death is just latest instance of video contradicting police accounts

  31-01-2023 20:00 via cnn.com
  
  The initial Memphis police statement on the events of January 7 was vague.
  
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• Before Tyre Nichols Killing, Memphis Police Chief Had Shocking Record at Another Department

  31-01-2023 19:55
  
  Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis, who moved quickly to fire five officers over their roles in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, had been fired from the Atlanta Police Department over allegations that she protected the husband of a police sergeant from being arrested.
  According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Davis was accused by two Atlanta police detectives of telling them to veer off of any investigation of Terrill Marion “T.C.” Crane, who was the husband
  
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• Lib NBA Star Stephen Curry Writes Letter Opposing Affordable Housing Next to His $30 Million Mansion

  31-01-2023 19:49
  
  NBA superstar Stephen Curry and his wife, Ayesha, have spent years participating in “social activism,” but when it comes to having affordable housing units built near their own multimillion-dollar California mansion, the couple are suddenly all up in arms about the plans.
  The Currys, who are huge Biden supporters, are hypocritically opposing the construction of a low-income, multifamily unit being built near their Atherton, California, mansion, saying they have “major concerns&
  
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• Mike Huckabee: Hunter Financially Tied to Chinese Espionage, Sent More Classified Emails

  31-01-2023 19:36
  
  As it becomes clearer that Hunter Biden, with his many shady business connections and, shall we say, freewheeling lifestyle, had access to top-secret material in his father’s possession, the question becomes, how did this search for classified documents get started?
  Kash Patel, who as lead investigator for Devin Nunes’ House Intel Committee and a former deputy director of national intelligence is in a relatively good position to know, examines this in an Op-Ed at the Daily Caller. Bu
  
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• This Water Crisis Could Last 10 Years: Many Fleeing City Amidst 'Hopelessness', But 1 Group is Fighting It

  31-01-2023 19:10
  
  Hundreds of thousands of Americans don’t even have clean drinking water.
  The problem is taking a serious toll on one Mississippi community — so much that the city’s residents are fleeing for other towns and cities.
  Jackson, Mississippi has lost 10 percent of its residents in the last decade alone, in great part due to faulty water infrastructure, according to WTXF-TV.
  Weak, aging water pipes have left residents of the state capital with inconsistent water service.
  Jackson resid
  
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• Healthy MSNBC Host Returns to TV After Weeks, Announces She Was Hospitalized for Myocarditis

  31-01-2023 18:51
  
  Yasmin Vossoughian used the MSNCB airwaves to announce a recent diagnosis on Saturday.
  The 44-year-0ld weekend news anchor began the segment explaining that, for a period of roughly 2 weeks, she began to feel chest pain which worsened over time. Eventually, Vossoughian’s symptoms progressed to the point that she believed she was having a heart attack.
  Vossoughian made a point to note how healthy she is.
  “I want to remind you, I run seven miles three to four times a week, or I did. I
  
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• 80-Year-Old Man Getting Beaten by Home Invaders Reaches for His Firearm and Instantly Turns the Tables

  31-01-2023 18:14
  
  When two criminals invaded an 80-year-old Chicago man’s home and began beating him, a legally owned firearm, as it often does, allowed the victim to escape with his life.
  According to WMAQ-TV, the Chicago Police Department said the unidentified elderly man, who lives close to O’Hare International Airport, was the victim of a home invasion on Monday morning. An unidentified man and woman knocked at his door, and the two eventually forced their way inside.
  Police said a fight broke out
  
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• Apple has infringed on worker rights, NLRB investigators say

  31-01-2023 17:46 via cnn.com
  
  Apple has illegally imposed rules on its employees that prohibit them from discussing their wages and engaging in other protected activity, according to investigators at the National Labor Relations Board.
  
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• Camera Catches Cop Rushing to Car as Tornado Bears Down on Texas Town, Moments Later It Records Powerful Act of Loyalty

  31-01-2023 17:45
  
  When a powerful tornado hit the Houston suburb of Deer Park, Texas, last week, police Officer Joel Nitchman knew he had to save his helpless partner.
  On surveillance video, Nitchman can be seen running to a parked police SUV outside the station. Another officer runs toward the building.
  Moments later, the tornado hits. For a moment, we can’t see a thing. Fencing appears to be thrown into the side of the cruiser. Within seconds, later, the worst of it is over.
  Then, Nitchman emerged from th
  
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• Joe Biden Poses in Electric Hummer, Conveniently Leaves Out 2 Facts About It He Doesn't Want You to Know

  31-01-2023 17:27
  
  President Joe Biden took to Twitter on Monday to promote his administration’s new electric vehicle tax credits, posing in a car which is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions on average than smaller gas-powered cars.
  The Hummer EV Pickup that Biden was photographed in is responsible for, on average, 341 grams of carbon dioxide per mile, according to the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. However, the Hummer EV Pickup is responsible for roughly 50 more grams per mile
  
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• Good Hands

  31-01-2023 17:27
  
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• Boy, 14, Dies After Cardiac Arrest, Being Thrown Off Bull at Rodeo: 'A Nightmare for the Rest of My Life'

  31-01-2023 17:20
  
  A 14-year-old boy died after riding a bull for the first time Saturday in North Carolina.
  Local emergency personnel arrived at a rodeo event in King, just north of Winston-Salem, on Saturday night in response to a call about a cardiac arrest, WRAL-TV reported.
  The report said Denim Bradshaw “was riding a bull at the time of the call, but it is unclear what caused the cardiac arrest.”
  According to the Greensboro News & Record, Stokes County emergency management director Brandon Ge
  
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• Athlete Booted from Country Over Vaccine Status Comes Back 1 Year Later with Vengeance and Wins Big

  31-01-2023 17:13
  
  One year ago, Novak Djokovic was deported from Australia because the country’s vaccine scolds refused to let the world’s No. 1 tennis player participate in the Australian Open unless he took the jab.
  Never mind that he’d been previously infected with the COVID-19 virus. Never mind that he posed little risk to himself or anyone else. In 2022, fear won out — and, with Djokovic sent home, Rafael Nadal won.
  At the time, this meant Nadal broke the three-way tie for all-time me
  
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• Jury Clears Catholic Father Targeted by Biden DOJ, Watch What He Does After Verdict: 'We Took on Goliath...and Won'

  31-01-2023 16:43
  
  The affront to God that is the Biden administration wasted little time in attacking pro-life Americans with large families in retaliation for the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June of 2022.
  I highlighted the FBI’s outrageous arrest of a fellow pro-life advocate Paul Vaughn, a Tennessee father of seven who is accused of blocking an entrance to an abortion clinic back in March of 2021 and was arrested in October of 2022.
  Mark Houck — also a pro-life father of 7 — was similarly ar
  
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• Former Three-Term Republican Senator Dies at Age 88

  31-01-2023 16:35
  
  Former U.S. Sen. David Durenberger, a Minnesota Republican who espoused a progressive brand of politics and criticized the GOP after his political career, died Tuesday at age 88.
  Durenberger’s health had declined in recent months, his longtime spokesman, Tom Horner, said.
  Horner told The Associated Press that Durenberger died Tuesday morning of natural causes. He was at his St. Paul home surrounded by family.
  Durenberger — a former executive secretary to GOP Gov. Harold LeVander, for
  
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• Embattled Rep. George Santos Steps Down from Committees Hours After Meeting with McCarthy

  31-01-2023 16:35
  
  Republican Rep. George Santos of New York told GOP colleagues Tuesday he is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees, a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
  Santos has faced numerous calls for his resignation and is facing multiple investigations by prosecutors over his personal and campaign finances and lies about his resume and family background.
  Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the Ho
  
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• Trump Goes Nuclear on Journalist Bob Woodward, Launches $50 Million Lawsuit: 'Woodward Talked the Talk, But He Failed to Walk the Walk'

  31-01-2023 16:14
  
  Former President Donald Trump has filed a nearly $50 million lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward, claiming that Woodward wrongly released audio tapes of interviews he did with Trump for a book.
  Between December 2019 and July 2020, Woodward interviewed Trump for his book, “Rage.” The lawsuit admitted Trump consented to the interviews but says there was a condition — that they were only to be used to help Woodward accurately capture what Trump said when he wrote the book.
  Tru
  
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• Biden's message to McCarthy ahead of critical White House meeting: Show me your plan

  31-01-2023 15:52 via cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's position that cuts to Medicare and Social Security are not on the table in exchange for a debt ceiling increase has drawn skepticism from his primary negotiating partner: The White House.
  
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• Adam Schiff Finally Made to Answer for Years of Pushing Trump-Russia Hoax

  31-01-2023 15:52
  
  Amidst the network’s mighty struggle to restore its tarnished reputation as a trusted source in cable news, CNN host Dana Bash asked California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff some tough questions on Sunday’s edition of “State of the Union.”
  She began, “You said that there was direct evidence of the fact that [former President] Donald Trump colluded with Russia back in 2016.” Quoting from special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, she said, “The inv
  
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• Police Chief Has Warning for Would-Be Intruders: 'We Live in Florida...Most People Are Armed'

  31-01-2023 15:26
  
  In Florida, run by a pro-Second Amendment governor and county sheriffs who don’t mess around, the bad guys are finding it increasingly difficult to commit crimes without consequence.
  And in many cases, those consequences come long before a jail cell and a court date. Just ask 27-year-old Tyriek Tramaine Washington, who, according to Fox News, is one of two intruders who allegedly broke into the home of a Floridian with a concealed carry license in Haines City, Florida.
  Haines City Police C
  
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• GM shares surge after record earnings and new stake in lithium company

  31-01-2023 15:26 via cnn.com
  
  General Motors reported a much stronger than expected fourth-quarter profit, lifting full-year results to record levels for the second straight year.
  
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• GM shares surge after record earnings

  31-01-2023 15:26 via cnn.com
  
  General Motors reported a much stronger than expected fourth-quarter profit, lifting full-year results to record levels for the second straight year.
  
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• Watch: Bill Gates Squirms as Interviewer Repeatedly Presses Him on Jeffrey Epstein Connection

  31-01-2023 15:00
  
  In a new interview, Bill Gates awkwardly pushed back against any suggestion that his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was more than a few dinners.
  Gates was interviewed Monday on the Australian Broadcasting Corp.’s show “7.30.”
  “Do you regret the relationship that you maintained with him against Melinda’s advice and wishes?” interviewer Sarah Ferguson asked, referring to the software billionaire’s former wife.
  “You’re
  
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• Department of Justice Subpoenas Tesla Over Potential Safety Issue

  31-01-2023 14:41
  
  The U.S. Justice Department has requested documents from Tesla Inc. related to its Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving” features, according to a regulatory filing Tuesday.
  “To our knowledge, no government agency in any ongoing investigation has concluded that any wrongdoing occurred,” the electric vehicle maker said in its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  “However, we cannot predict the outcome or impact of any such ongoing matters,” it said, &
  
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• Bob Born, the 'Father of Peeps,' has died

  31-01-2023 14:32 via cnn.com
  
  Ira "Bob" Born, known as the "Father of Peeps," died on Sunday. He was 98.
  
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• ExxonMobil earnings more than double to annual record

  31-01-2023 14:12 via cnn.com
  
  ExxonMobil's earnings slowed from a peak earlier in the year but the oil giant still reached a full-year record profit more than double what it reported a year ago.
  
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• Mpox is almost gone in the US, leaving lessons and mysteries in its wake

  31-01-2023 14:04 via cnn.com
  
  The US public health emergency declaration for mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, ends Tuesday.
  
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• Megyn Kelly Blasts 'Wannabe' First Lady After Fox Calls Her 'Dr.' Jill Biden: 'Get a Real MD'

  31-01-2023 13:56
  
  If there’s one thing the left is good at, it’s weaponizing language.  To the average, moral person, words are used to communicate truth and reality. To a leftist, they are used to gain power.
  Words like “racist” and “homophobe” are used to discredit the left’s enemies, terms like “systemic racism” and “patriarchy” are used to cover up their bad arguments. And the word “doctor” is used to give the first lady a fals
  
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• Megyn Kelly Blasts 'Wannabe' First Lady After CBS Calls Her 'Dr.' Jill Biden: 'Get a Real MD'

  31-01-2023 13:56
  
  If there’s one thing the left is good at, it’s weaponizing language.  To the average, moral person, words are used to communicate truth and reality. To a leftist, they are used to gain power.
  Words like “racist” and “homophobe” are used to discredit the left’s enemies, terms like “systemic racism” and “patriarchy” are used to cover up their bad arguments. And the word “doctor” is used to give the first lady a fals
  
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• Biden zeroes in on the newly powerful House GOP as a threat to the rebounding economy

  31-01-2023 13:45 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden is fine-tuning his argument for reelection in an intensive stretch of travel and fundraising, homing in on the newly powerful House GOP as a threat to the rebounding economy as the pieces of his expected campaign come together.
  
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• Is this the beginning of the end for Big Oil's windfall?

  31-01-2023 13:41 via cnn.com
  
  Oil and gas companies have had two years of skyrocketing growth, but this earnings season could mark the beginning of their descent back down to earth.
  
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• This app lets Silicon Valley workers commiserate about layoffs in secret

  31-01-2023 13:39 via cnn.com
  
  In the week before Microsoft publicly announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs, thousands of workers at the tech giant who were eager for any information about the looming layoffs joined a professional networking site — not LinkedIn, which Microsoft owns, but Blind.
  
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• As mass layoffs spread, tech workers are flocking to this app

  31-01-2023 13:39 via cnn.com
  
  In the week before Microsoft publicly announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs, thousands of workers at the tech giant who were eager for any information about the looming layoffs joined a professional networking site — not LinkedIn, which Microsoft owns, but Blind.
  
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• UPS reports record profit but forecasts slower 2023

  31-01-2023 13:02 via cnn.com
  
  UPS reported a record profit for 2022 as its revenue reached $100 billion for the first time.
  
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