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  • Toyota is investing $1.3 billion to upgrade 30-year-old equipment at its manufacturing plant in Georgetown, Kentucky. The factory is going to start producing a new Camry in June. The automaker says this investment has been in the works for years and was not driven by the border tax floated by President Trump. But that doesn’t […]

  • United is in the hot seat after video shows passenger’s forcible removal
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    The airline is handling a first-class PR problem, but will it change?

  • New York has become the first state to approve a “free college” plan for middle-class families. A $153 billion budget deal reached Sunday night includes a new Excelsior Scholarship. It will cover tuition at the state’s public colleges and universities for families earning up to $125,000 a year. But as any family paying for college […]

  • The latest merger of two corporate giants, worth a combined $5.1 billion, is far from New York City. Instead, it’s the joining of two major trucking companies, Swift and Knight. The new company, Knight-Swift, will be based in Phoenix, where both companies have their headquarters. The trucking industry faces challenges, like flat demand from manufacturers, […]

  • "Kirks' Camera," 1976, opening sequence.
    University of Washington Digital Collections

    It’s Hannah Palin’s job to keep old films from decaying on the shelf.

  • The internet, as we learned all too well during the election, makes the public more susceptible to fake news. Facebook announced fake news-spotting tips for its users this week. Now Google has expanded a tool to help users decide how true a given search result might be by telling users if it’s been fact-checked. Its […]

  • Weekly Wrap: What the numbers are really telling us
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    Sudeep Reddy of Politico and Linette Lopez of Business Insider join us to discuss the week’s business and economic news. This week, they talk about what numbers we should really be focusing on to judge the economy, and the latest happenings at the Federal Reserve.

  • Contemporary artist Mark Wagner creates portraits of U.S. presidents from dollar bills.
    Photo courtesy of Mark Wagner

    Artist Mark Wagner uses U.S. currency to make his intricate collages.

  • Weapons, oil and other investments keep money flowing between the two countries.

  • When Stewart-Webster Hospital closed in 2013, residents say they lost a sense of security along with a health care provider.
    Elly Yu

    'Without health care, people don’t want to stay here. I don't blame them,' a former nurse says.