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  • Despite a growing fossil fuel export business, the U.S. economy has actually seen its emissions of carbon dioxide fall the last two decades. A new analysis lists the specific reasons, and there are many: more natural gas burned instead of coal, more wind and solar power, more efficient factories and cars. But tomorrow’s path to […]

  • Scandal-besieged Wells Fargo seems to be cleaning up its act. It’s replacing three of 15 board members, including the chairman. Stephen Sanger will step down at the end of the year and current Vice Chair Elizabeth Duke will take his place. Is this a real change for the bank? Click the audio player above to […]

  • Déjà vu all over again? A Trump administration official has called a reporter up and had a very candid, shall we say, colorful conversation, which he maybe did, maybe didn’t think was on the record. This time, the official was White House chief strategist Steve Bannon who said: “We’re at economic war with China.” Bannon said […]

  • President Donald Trump delivers remarks at American Center for Mobility in Ypsilanti, Michigan on March 15, 2017.
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    Dorothy A. Brown, a scholar specializing in tax policy, race and class, shares her perspective on President Trump's assertion that good jobs will "have a huge, positive impact on race relations."

  • General Motors CEO Mary Barra holds a media briefing prior to the start of the 2015 GM Annual Meeting of Stockholders at GM world headquarters June 2015 in Detroit, Michigan. 
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    Julie Creswell at the New York Times and Jena McGregor at the Washington Post have both written about the lack of women at the top of corporate America.

  • Three big words in tech news today: original video content. Apple is reportedly making a big push into the business with a $1 billion plan to stream its own shows on its Apple TV and Apple Music platforms. The tech giant joins an increasingly crowded field, competing with the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Hulu, […]

  • Hundreds of people gather Sunday for a vigil on the spot where 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed when a car plowed into a crowd of people protesting against the white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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    New York Times culture critic Wesley Morris discusses the way race and culture intersect in the aftermath of Charlottesville.

  • President Trump fields questions from reporters about his comments on the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, yesterday at Trump Tower in New York City. With him, from left, are Director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.
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    And then he broke up with them.

  • Inside Assembly North at BMW's Spartanburg manufacturing facility, the biggest BMW factory in the world.
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    Spartanburg County made a big bet on globalization when they landed a BMW manufacturing facility 25 years ago. Here's what that looks like today.

  • President Trump with Merk CEO Kenneth Frazier at the White House in February. Frazier resigned from Trump's American Manufacturing Council on Monday.
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    Why would CEOs stick with Trump?

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