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Chinese home appliance company Hisense has big plans to sell more goods overseas, but it said global shipping congestion has multiplied costs and caused delays. It’s not been easy, generally, for Chinese multinationals. Out of about 3,400 Chinese companies that operate internationally, only about 200 make more than $1 billion in sales overseas, said James … Read more

Twitter this week announced the rollout of a new fact-checking initiative that will rely in part on a major news organization that regularly published reports on the now-debunked Trump-Russia collusion theory and other disproven attacks on the Trump administration. The social media company said in an announcement on Monday that it had enlisted both The … Read more

Law school was once considered a surefire ticket to a comfortable life. Years of tuition increases have made it a fast way to get buried in debt. Recent graduates of the University of Miami School of Law who used federal loans borrowed a median of $163,000. Two years later, half were earning $59,000 or less. … Read more

A bipartisan infrastructure bill in Congress proposes to raise $28 billion from crypto investors by applying new information reporting requirements to exchanges and other parties. According to a draft copy of the bill shared with CoinDesk, any broker that transfers any digital assets would need to file a return under a modified information reporting regime. … Read more

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Over 600,000 Chinese citizens applied to another country for asylum from 2012 to 2020, with annual applicants increasing seven times in the past nine years, media reported recently. A number of British media reported in the past week that, based on data obtained from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the annual number of … Read more

The 330,000 new positions is sharp deceleration from the 680,000 added in June and the lowest total since February. Leisure and hospitality led gains with 139,000 during a month in which goods-producing industries contributed just 12,000 jobs. Job creation at private companies tumbled in July as fears mounted over the spreading coronavirus delta variant, payroll … Read more

the crowd is the best part They cheer when the cat escapes and then boo when they finally get the cat out https://t.co/Z7a2NFkdng — Tim Pool (@Timcast) August 3, 2021 Dan

That moment when you start to sober up and realized you’re taped to a seat tens of thousands of feet in the air. https://twitter.com/SweeneyABC/status/1422537706173775875 Within hours of the largest flight attendant union demanding support for the suspended crew, Frontier is out with a new statement. Frontier says their first statement was rushed, but still will … Read more

  it feels like they’re really desperate and making their major moves now. It also feels like we have a chance to beat them if we unite h/t RealKeeny7

I had a conversation with my daughter about dating back when she was 18, whereupon I (sadly) learned that she was uncomfortable with the expectation that a man should pay on a date. Whaaat? I asked. That’s what men are supposed to do! I know, she said, but you don’t understand how things are today, Mom. … Read more

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