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The success of President-Elect Donald Trumps legislative agenda will depend on whether Republicans can close ranks in Congress. They nearly failed on their very first vote. Mike Johnson won reelection as House speaker by the narrowest of margins this afternoon, and only after two Republican holdouts changed their votes at the last minute. Johnson won
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday that Ford Motor would recall 20,484 hybrid crossover SUVs over battery concerns. The recall includes certain Ford Escape and luxury Lincoln Corsair vehicles from model years 2020 to 2024. “A manufacturing defect in one or more of the high voltage battery cells may result in an internal short circuit and battery
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US online spending rose nearly 9% during the 2024 holiday season, with shoppers increasingly buying products such as TVs and LEGO sets on their smartphones, data from Adobe Analytics showed on Tuesday. Holiday spending from Nov. 1 through Dec. 31 rose 8.7% to about $241.4 billion online, higher than Adobe’s initial forecast of $240.8 billion made in September. In 2023, online spending during the same period
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WASHINGTON Even as Nippon Steel faced skepticism of its doomed $14.9 billion bid for US Steel from the Biden administration, it was also contending with headwinds from an unlikely source: the CEO of a rival bidder for the firm who repeatedly cast doubt on the deal’s prospects to investors. Lourenco Goncalves, CEO of steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs, which
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We love bonds, but we hate it when they make the front page. Let’s face it, while they are intellectually fascinating, there are no good news stories about bond markets. It’s always “someone’s defaulted”, “someone’s crashing the economy”, or some other such awfulness. Readers would have found it hard to miss the excellent coverage that
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