Finance
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Biden Administration Announces Rule to Strengthen Protection of Public Lands
The measure elevates conservation in a number of ways, including by creating new leases for the restoration of degraded areas.
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Chinese Exports Are Threatening Biden’s Industrial Agenda
The president is increasingly hitting back with tariffs and other measures meant to restrict imports, raising tensions with Beijing.
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Congress Ramps Up the Pressure on TikTok
A legislative maneuver in the House may help an effort to force the divestment of the video platform by its…
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Drought Pushes Millions Into ‘Acute Hunger’ in Southern Africa
The disaster, intensified by El Niño, is devastating communities across several countries, killing crops and livestock and sending food prices…
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How an Obscure Chinese Real Estate Start-Up Paved the Way to TikTok
Court records, mistakenly made public, tell a story about the birth of ByteDance, its bumpy road to success and the…
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Truth Social Has an Edge as Rival Right-Wing Apps Falter
Donald Trump’s social media platform has outdistanced similar conservative sites such as Parler and Gettr, even as it lags far…
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Legal Fight Over Trump Media’s Ownership Adds to Its Woes
Two ex-contestants on “The Apprentice” sold the former president on the idea of a social media platform. Now, the company…
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Google Fires 28 Employees Involved in Protest of Israeli Cloud Contract
The dismissals escalated longstanding tensions between company leaders and activist employees opposed to supplying technology to Israel’s government.
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What Is a Magazine Now?
“To be perfectly honest with you, I needed a few Americans to tell me what it means to win this…
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A Japanese Village Wants Tourists to Come for Heat, Soot and Steel
This past October, I found myself in Yoshida Village standing before a tatara, a giant open-top furnace that was filled…