Economy
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D.C. Is Raising Restaurant Pay. What Does That Mean for the Rest of Us?
The last few years have fundamentally changed Americans’ relationship with restaurants. As the pandemic made diners more aware of the…
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‘Barbie’ Ruled the Box Office, but 2023 Was Tough for Women in Hollywood
The number of top films with actresses in leading roles was the lowest in a decade, and women have been…
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Bank Runs Spooked Regulators. Now a Clampdown Is Coming.
Federal Reserve officials and other bank regulators could roll out a new proposal this spring to ward off a repeat…
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American Airlines Orders 260 Planes From Airbus, Boeing and Embraer
The order is the largest by the airline since 2011 and signals the company’s confidence in Boeing after a recent…
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A.I. Start-Up Anthropic Challenges OpenAI and Google With New Chatbot
Despite computer shortages, controversies and lawsuits, A.I. continues to improve at a rapid pace.
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JetBlue and Spirit Call Off Their Merger
JetBlue said it would pay Spirit $69 million to terminate the $3.8 billion deal, which had been blocked by federal…
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Apple Fined $2 Billion by E.U. for Using App Store to Thwart Competition
Apple said it would appeal the penalty, the latest in a series of regulatory setbacks for the tech giant.
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Forced to Change: Tech Giants Bow to Global Onslaught of Rules
For years, Apple, Google, Meta and others operated unfettered. But new laws and regulations have finally compelled them to make…
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How Regulations Fractured Apple’s App Store
Since introducing the App Store in 2008, Apple has run it largely the same way across 175 countries, right down…
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The ZIP Code Shift: Why Many Americans No Longer Live Where They Work
A new study shows that white-collar employees who can work remotely now live roughly twice as far from their offices…