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Trump addresses local union boss, Lordstown GM closure

Trump acknowledged his conversation with Barra in a tweet Sunday after he fumed in other tweets about the Lordstown, Ohio, plant shutting down. "G.M. "G.M. le...

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CBOE Futures Exchange To Cease Trading Bitcoin Futures Contracts

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Tata Motors' arm recalls 44000 cars over Carbon dioxide emissions levels in UK

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Volkswagen To Accept I.D. Hatchback Pre-Orders Starting May 8

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Hammond talks up United Kingdom economy despite Brexit 'cloud'

The thinktank also warned that it could not determine whether austerity was ending and public services moving "decisively upwards after almost a decade of unpre...

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Celebrate National Pi Day 2019 with these deals

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Jury awards $29M in J&J baby powder cancer case

The California Superior Court in Oakland agreed that the company's baby powder was a "substantial contributing factor" to her mesothelioma , a rare and aggre...

Nissan, Renault, Mitsubishi to reorganize alliance after Ghosn's removal

The announcement at a press conference in Yokohama, where Nissan is based, was created to ease the tensions that have flared within the alliance since the a...

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The so-called OPEC+ alliance, including Russian Federation and other producers, agreed in December to reduce supply by 1.2 million bpd from 1 January for six mo...

Tesla officially unveils the Model Y

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Disney Is Letting Go Its Acquisition On Fox

The new Fox, which includes Fox News and the Fox broadcast network will operate as a separate company after the mega-deal closes. The Walt Disney Company pl...

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Facebook: two top executives to leave company

After CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, Cox is the third highest-ranking executive at Facebook , representing the engineering and product sides of...

Toyota investing $749 million in five US plants, adding 586 jobs

On Thursday Toyota allocated $750 million of that total to facilities in Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and West Virginia. "Doubling our production ...

Google Celebrates Pi Day As Employee Calculates New World Record

Google made the announcement on March 14 (3.14), which is known as Pi Day . Iwao, a computer scientist and software engineer whose official title is cloud d...

Facebook says it’s resolved outage issues and denies attack

Facebook says its lengthy outages over the past day were the result of a "server configuration change". Some of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp's more tha...

Shares - Boeing Weighs on Dow As Gross sales Knowledge Carry S&P, Nasdaq

Boeing lost 6.1 percent after many countries grounded the Boeing plane involved in the Ethiopian Airlines crash Sunday or banned it from their airspace. The Na...

Canadian authorities seek $150k double Bitcoin spending on ATM suspects

Calgary police began its investigations in October after the swindled Bitcoin ATM company alerted them of the issue. Each of the four suspects in the Bitc...

Numbers drawn for $448 million Powerball jackpot

While no one matched all the numbers, three tickets nationally matched five numbers, but not the Powerball . The lump sum payment before taxes would be about $...

Celebrating Pi Day? Pizza company offering $3.14 deal on Thursday

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Three flights cancelled at EIA as feds ground Boeing 737 Max aircraft

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His original tweet went viral, receiving over 470,000 likes and 223,000 shares. Since posting it over the weekend, the tweet has been retweeted over 250,000 t...