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Donna Christian is a writer and editor with a passion for politics, health, business, parenting, and finance. She loves to write about the most important issues in our society, and she's particularly interested in how they impact women.

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Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg to attend Trump's inauguration

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Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are expected to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20, two sources told CBS News. According to Forbes, they are the three richest people in the world, worth an estimated $850 billion combined. CNBC was first to report their plans to attend the president-elect’s inauguration. Musk, the […]

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3 Boar's Head plants also had unsanitary conditions, USDA records show

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Three Boar’s Head deli meat plants were cited for unsanitary conditions, including insects, mold, and “unidentified slime,” according to newly released federal records. The new findings suggest that sanitation problems were not limited to the company’s factory that was shut down last year following a deadly listeria outbreak. The inspection records, released in response to Freedom

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Meta is cutting 5% of its workforce, or more than 3,600 employees

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Meta plans to cut 5% of its workforce, or about 3,600 workers, with the social media giant focusing on eliminating low-performing employees.  The layoffs, earlier reported by Bloomberg News, were confirmed by Meta, which had about 72,400 employees as of Sept. 30. In a memo published by Bloomberg and confirmed by Meta, CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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McDonald's sued over Latino scholarships after backing off DEI policy

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McDonald’s is being sued over its long-running program offering scholarships to Latino and Hispanic students.  The lawsuit filed in Nashville on Sunday by the American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER), a group opposed to affirmative action, came days after McDonald’s added its voice to a chorus of corporations rolling back or ditching diversity, equity and

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Producer prices rose less than expected last month, encouraging investors

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U.S. wholesale inflation rose last month on higher energy prices. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that its producer price index — which tracks inflation before it hits consumers — rose 0.2% last month from November, down from a 0.4% gain the month before. Compared with a year earlier, producer prices rose 3.3%, biggest jump since

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What would happen to TikTok on my phone if the app is banned?

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TikTok faces a possible ban in the U.S. later this month if a law that could require the social media app’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to part ways with the platform takes effect as scheduled on Jan. 19. Specifically, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act would make it illegal for app stores from Google or Apple, as

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Does the tech industry really need so many workers on H-1B visas?

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Elon Musk sparked fierce online debate recently when the billionaire said on social media that the U.S. lacks enough top engineers, pointing to immigration as the solution to what he characterized as a dearth of technical expertise.  There is a dire shortage of extremely talented and motivated engineers in America,” Musk posted on his social

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Consumers who bought phony N95 masks getting more than $1 million

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The Federal Trade Commission is sending a total of more than $1 million to fully refund people who bought deceptively marketed face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency announced on Monday. The FTC in April 2024 took action against Razer and several affiliates over their production and sale of a “wearable air purifier” face mask called

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