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  • Instagram entrepreneurs are searching vintage racks for you
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    A new breed of shoppers are snapping up vintage clothing on the social media platform.

  • President Donald Trump has ordered the Commerce Department to look into whether higher tariffs are needed on imports of cars, trucks and automotive parts, in the interest of national security. But how do you decide if a vehicle is imported? These days, some American brands are made overseas. Foreign carmakers have factories in the U.S. […]

  • The Washington Capitals are headed to the Stanley Cup finals and the team’s fans have sponsors to help them catch a ride home. Because Washington, D.C.’s metro system usually shuts down at 11:30 pm, some interesting public-private partnerships are evolving to fund late night service. Click the audio player above to hear the full story. 

  • Workers assemble Porsche Cayenne and Panamera cars at an assembly line at the Porsche factory in 2012 in Leipzig, Germany.
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    What makes an imported car an imported car? It's complicated.

  • Paint pigments at Colart factory in Le Mans, France, in 2013.
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    A safe and durable pigment in the right shade could be worth nearly a billion dollars a year.

  • The best advice for college students unlucky enough to graduate into a recession: Be flexible
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    While studies suggest recession graduates tend to fall behind their nonrecession peers in terms of salary and don’t catch up for 10 to 20 years, there are ways to catch up more quickly and make up the gap.

  • Cannabis business owners went to Washington, D.C., to lobby this week for legalizing marijuana and easing banking and tax laws.
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    A couple hundred business owners push for the federal legalization of marijuana so their companies can grow.

  • The Turkish lira has been on a wild slide recently. It dropped 5 percent against the dollar Wednesday, its biggest loss in nearly a decade, before the country’s Central Bank stepped in with an emergency meeting that reversed some of those losses. The bank finally did something it’d been resisting. Something its president had been […]

  • More patients who are terminally ill will potentially have access to experimental drugs under a measure passed by the House last night. President Donald Trump is expected to sign the so-called “right-to-try” bill. Forty states have already passed similar legislation. Currently, terminal patients not covered by those laws have only two options for getting unapproved […]

  • “There is a responsibility to make sure that the technologies that you create have the proper technology built in so that it's used appropriately,” Qualcomm CEO Steven Mollenkopf says. Above, he speaks at a tech conference in October.
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    "We actually feel like we have a seat at the table on both sides of the trade dispute," Steven Mollenkopf says.