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At Least 2 People Killed In Massive Industrial Explosion In Houston

The blast was felt more than 30 miles away, knocking homes off their foundations and casting debris about half a ...
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Gender Bias Reveals Consequences For Female Artists

Art by women and men is valued differently. Fine art by women, on average, is valued much less than men’s ...
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Pharmaceutical Executive John Kapoor Sentenced To 66 Months In Prison In Opioid Trial

His sentencing is the culmination of a months-long criminal trial that resulted in the first successful prosecution of pharmaceutical executives ...
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Drug Company Executive John Kapoor Sentenced To 26 Months Of Prison

In the first successful prosecution of a pharmaceutical executive linked to the opioid crisis, the founder of Insys and onetime ...
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Don’t Be Like Jeff Bezos. Here’s How To Keep Your Phone Safe From Hackers

The world’s richest man and high-tech mastermind, Jeff Bezos, allegedly was hacked by the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. What ...
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Some Hope Wildfires Will Change Australia’s Relationship With Coal

Widespread bushfires are creating new calls to end the country’s dependence on fossil fuels. But fossil fuel extraction is big ...
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Can Space Traffic Control Handle The Volume Of Private Launches?

SpaceX is launching more of its a mega-constellation of satellites on Friday to provide Internet all over the world, but ...
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‘Washington Post,’ ‘National Enquirer’ In Spotlight After Bezos Phone Hacking

The alleged hacking of Jeff Bezos’ smartphone by Saudi Arabia puts the spotlight on the Bezos-owned Washington Post, which angered ...
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Federal Government May Tighten Restrictions On Service Animals On Planes

One of the biggest changes is that the Department of Transportation would no longer require airlines to consider emotional support ...
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New Jersey Mandates Severance Pay For Workers Facing Mass Layoffs

“Workers’ performance and workers’ dedication to the company were secondary. Now, they’ll be moved more to the forefront,” state Sen ...
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New Boeing CEO Gives Pep Talk To Employees And Addresses Media

New Boeing CEO David Calhoun met with his employees in Seattle and then held a conference call with reporters in ...
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Ready For Meat Grown From Animal Cells? A Startup Plans A Pilot Facility

Memphis Meats, a startup company that has just raised $161 million, says it has a “clear path” to bringing cell-based ...
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U.N. Experts Urge Probe Of Reported Hacking Of Jeff Bezos’ Phone By Saudi Arabia

U.N. human rights experts said they were gravely concerned by reports that a WhatsApp account held by Saudi Crown Prince ...
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Myth Busted: Turns Out Bankruptcy Can Wipe Out Student Loan Debt After All

Many Americans who get overwhelmed by student loan debt are told student debt can’t be erased through bankruptcy. Now more ...
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A Profile Of Donna Rotunno, Harvey Weinstein’s Attorney

Chicago attorney Donna Rotunno is defending movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in what is expected to be a knock-down-drag-out trial. Rotunno ...
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Vine reboot Byte officially launches

Two years after Vine’s co-founder Dom Hofmann announced he was building a successor to the short-form video app, today Byte makes its debut on iOS ...
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Kraftful raises $1M to help smart home companies make better apps

If a thousand companies make their own smart light bulb, do a thousand companies also have to design a light switch app to control them? ...
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Daily Crunch: Goldman Sachs calls for diverse boards

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day ...
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