American businesses took on 199,000 new workers last month, a figure reflecting the return to work by auto workers after strikes were settled, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported.
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SPECULATORS BET ON BITCOIN’S RETURN
Crypto fans are betting cryptocurrencies’ troubles are fading now that the U.S. has clamped down on Binance and shut down FTX, two high-flying crypto trading platforms, and successfully prosecuted Changpeng Zhao and Sam Bankman-Fried, their respective CEOs.
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RATE CUTS WILL BEGIN LATER THAN MARKETS THINK, ECONOMISTS SAY
Speculators in interest rate futures are betting that the U.S. Federal Reserve will begin paring back its interest rates before summer; many are wagering that the cuts will begin in March.
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WEIGHT-LOSS DRUG MAKERS COULD FACE CLASS-ACTION SUIT AS SIDE EFFECTS
Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, two top drug makers behind weight-loss drugs known as GLP-1 receptor agonists, are faced with mounting lawsuits from patients who claim they were not adequately warned about the side effects, and lawyers handling these cases are considering “centralizing” these suits in federal court in Louisiana, according to Reuters.
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COVID LOCKDOWNS LEAD TO HISTORIC DECLINE IN LEARNING ACROSS THE GLOBE, NEW STUDY SAYS
The Program for International Student Assessment, which looked into the academic achievements in students around the world, found that school-aged children “suffered historic setbacks in reading and math” during the COVID-19 outbreak—when politicians were locking down schools.
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HYPOCRITES ON PARADE: BLINKEN SAYS WARRING FACTIONS IN SUDAN HAVE COMMITTED WAR CRIMES
Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state who has supported the genocide in Gaza, came out last week against what he identified as war crimes committed by all sides during the conflict in Sudan.
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FOUR RUSSIANS CHARGED WITH WAR CRIMES. WHAT ABOUT GUANTANAMO, ISRAEL’S WAR OF GENOCIDE?
The U.S. announced last week that four Russian military members have been charged with war crimes stemming from the Ukraine War—the first of its kind from the conflict and the first ever under a statute enacted nearly 30 years ago.
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WARMONGER BLINKEN SELLS DOMINO THEORY, SAYS RUSSIA WON’T STOP AT UKRAINE
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not stop at Ukraine if Washington fails to pass another $110 billion package that would help fund Kyiv for a year, Israel in its war in Gaza, and the Indo-Pacific region.
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82 PERCENT OF GERMANS DISAPPROVE OF GOVERNMENT
A newly released poll found that 82 percent of Germans are unhappy with their governing coalition headed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, according to an ARD-DeutschlandTrend poll.
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FREE SPEECH IS DEAD: CONDEMNING ISRAEL GENOCIDE IN GAZA PROHIBITED
M. Elizabeth Magill announced that she would step down from her post as president of the University of Pennsylvania after the fallout from her appearance before Congress where she refused to take the scalps of students who chanted in support of an intifada.