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Home Depot's sales continue to soften in 2024 as inflation, delayed start to spring weigh on sales
Home Depot’s sales continued to soften in the first quarter as the nation’s largest home improvement retailer not only was constrained by high mortgage rates and customers dealing with inflation concerns, but it also had to deal with a delayed start to spring
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New industry readies for launch as researchers hone offshore wind turbines that float
Researchers around the world are racing to create large wind turbines and floating platforms as upcoming lease auctions bring offshore wind closer to reality
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Waymo is latest company under investigation for autonomous or partially automated technology
The U.S. government’s highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving systems, this time into crashes involving Waymo’s self-driving vehicles
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Europe's Stellantis and China's Leapmotor will sell electric cars in Europe from September
European carmaker Stellantis says it will begin selling electric vehicles from its Chinese partner Leapmotor in nine European countries later this year
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Migration tracking group says 76 million people were displaced within their countries in 2023
A top migration monitoring group says conflicts and natural disasters left nearly 76 million people displaced within their countries last year, a new record
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Congress is sending families less help for day care costs. So states are stepping in
Child care has long been expensive for families, hard to find and financially precarious for day care owners and workers
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Katharina Wagner will lead the Bayreuth Festival for 5 more years
The Bayreuth Festival in Germany has announced it is retaining Katharina Wagner as its director for another five years
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Biden hiking tariffs on Chinese EVs, solar cells, steel, aluminum — adding to tensions with Beijing
The Biden administration is announcing plans to slap new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, advanced batteries, solar cells, steel, aluminum and medical equipment
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Stock market today: Global shares are mixed in muted trading after Wall Street barely budges
Global shares are mixed in muted trading after U.S. shares finished little changed
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Arthur Irving, who grew his family's oil business and was one of Canada's richest men, dies at 93
Canadian billionaire Arthur L
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