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  • Fox Sports will begin airing some six-second TV commercials during NFL games this season, a format it first tested during this month’s Teen Choice Awards. Ads that short are standard for online video content seen on YouTube or Facebook, but a change of pace for broadcast TV. Could this be more widely adopted in an […]

  • You may have heard today that the August headline jobs number “was below expectations,” or about 24,000 fewer jobs were created than the consensus among leading economists predicted. But how significant is that figure? The first release of the monthly job-creation number is an estimate accurate to plus or minus 119,000, according to the Bureau […]

  • The Department of Health and Human Services announced it would cut Obamacare advertising money by $90 million, a 90 percent overall cut. The money was meant to be used to encourage people to sign up for insurance coverage. To critics, this is just another sign the Trump Administration is trying to sabotage the law that […]

  • People wait in line to buy water at the Coastal Industrial and Specialty gas welding supplies store yesterday after the water supply to the city of Beaumont, Texas, was shut down from the effects of Hurricane Harvey.
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    High prices limit hording and increase supply. But that's bad for business, one expert argues.

  • Why do U.S. retraining programs fall short?
    Ken Garduno, Illustrator

    The programs for workers displaced by globalization are a half-hearted attempt to help.

  • Politico's Michael Grunwald discusses a decades-old report about repetitive losses in the Naional Flood Insurance Program.

  • Protesters demand immigration reform in front of the White House yesterday.
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    700,000 of 800,000 recipients nationwide are legally working, experts say. Repealing the program would exacerbate labor shortages.

  • Ignacia Allamand as Luciana, Mauricio Ochmann as Raúl and Humberto Busto as Eduardo in "Hazlo Como Hombre."
    Courtesy of Pantelion Films

    Nicolás Lopez used his "Chile-wood" to make "Hazlo Como Hombre" for less than a million dollars.

  • Jared Kushner, son-in-law of the president of the United States and a senior adviser to him, has a problem. It sits on Fifth Avenue smack in the middle of Manhattan, and on it hangs the fortunes of Kushner family business — and some questions about how Kushner is getting the money to pay the mortgage. David […]

  • A Harris County Sheriff vehicle blocks access on the Crosby Dayton Road which leads towards the Arkema Chemical Plant in Crosby, Texas on August 31, 2017.
    MANDEL NGAN / Getty Images

    “I’m just worrying about what we’re gonna be breathing,” one local resident told us.