The US Capitol Building is seen on January 19, 2023 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | GettyImages The contours of divided government in Washington are now clear: The main point of contention is the looming debt ceiling deadline, and the main area of agreement is addressing systemic competition with Communist China. While they can seem …
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Kimberly Palmer As a frequent PayPal user, I wasn’t surprised to see a payment request on the app pop up. But when I read it, I knew something was wrong. In the message, a stranger asked me to send them $699 in order to get a “refund.” While I instantly recognized the request as a …
Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) speaks on a mobile phone after a vote the day after the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 25, 2022. Joshua Roberts | Reuters Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., urged the CEOs of apple and Google to remove TikTok from their mobile app stores …
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A passageway near the Bank of England (BOE) in the City of London, UK, on Thursday, March 18, 2021. Hollie Adams | Bloomberg | GettyImages LONDON — The Bank of England on Thursday hiked interest rates by 50 basis points and dialed back some of its previous bleak economic forecasts. The Monetary Policy Committee voted …
US President Joe Biden, front, and Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | GettyImages The European Union is working against the clock to create a program to rival President Joe Biden’s unprecedented climate subsidies. But it’ll face two key issues in the process. The EU had, for a long …
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By Cecilia Butini Roche Holding AG reported sales growth in 2022, but said it expects a decrease in sales for 2023 due to a drop in the sale of Covid-19 products. The Swiss pharma major posted sales of 63.28 billion Swiss francs ($69.65 billion) for the full year 2022, up from CHF62.80 billion in 2021 …
The Bitcoin logo on a Coinstar cryptocurrency ATM at a grocery store in Washington, Jan. 19. Photo: stefani reynolds/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images In the US in recent years, privately owned companies have issued thousands of new cryptocurrencies, large and small. These have subsequently become publicly traded without any governmental pre-approval of disclosures. In some cases, a …
The last time I wrote about author, actress and playwright Sybil Rosen, she was visiting Roanoke from her home in rural Georgia. The Patrick Henry High grad (Class of ’68) was here to perform a one-character play, “The Belle of Amherst,” at Center in the Square. Rosen wrote it about the famous American poet, Emily …
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The Biden Administration has said the US is in competition with China and restricted the ability of American businesses to sell high-end chip tech to China. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | GettyImages BEIJING — a ban on US investment in Chinese tech could drive up market volatility — but some sectors may escape untouched, Bank of …
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Lael Brainard, vice chair of the US Federal Reserve, prior to taking the oath of office during a ceremony in Washington, DC, on Monday, May 23, 2022. Al Drago | Bloomberg | GettyImages The White House will likely appoint Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard to run the National Economic Council and Jared Bernstein to …
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