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Now your cell phone has something for you to worry about besides cancer-causing radiation. Researchers at the Institute of NBC Defence and Tsinghua University in China heated lithium-ion batteries, the usual power source in cell phones and other portable devices, to higher-than-normal temperatures. The scientists found that, as temperatures rise, the batteries begin leaking as...

President Donald Trump is at war with the media. And the media is at war with him. It’s a daily barrage of back and forths, with accusations of lies and fake news. Has the Fourth Estate lost its focus? Has it become personal? Has the media abandoned its role as the Fourth Estate, the unofficial fourth...

With nearly one in five subprime auto-loan borrowers two months or more behind on loan payments, echoes from the subprime mortgage crisis that kicked off The Panic of ’08 reverberate again. Delinquencies, according to Standard & Poor’s, are at highs not seen since 2010. That’s when the housing mortgage crisis peaked. Just as subprime home-loan...

Pot fans have long touted marijuana’s medicinal effects. But a just-released massive report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine provides the good, bad and clearly unknown story about pot’s beneficial uses. And in many cases, the report can’t offer proof of claims that pot cures some cancers and other diseases. The report...

Pot is hot. And it’s going to get hotter. Today, either recreational- or medical-use marijuana is legal in 28 states. And given pot’s resounding victory this past November, when four states approved recreational use and another four states legalized medical-marijuana measures, investors and entrepreneurs of all sizes and shapes have been looking to cash in....

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On Election Day, states from sea to shining sea legalized marijuana for recreational and medical use, getting high or getting better. Now, despite pot still being federally illegal, it has become legal in 28 states. While the fast-moving track for legalized marijuana is, at least for the next few years, teeming with profit opportunities for...

China, the country with the world’s largest population of 1.35 billion people and the world’s second-largest economy, accounts for 1.2 percentage points of world Gross Domestic Product. America, the world’s largest economy, with just 320 million people, added only 0.3 percentage points to overall world GDP growth. Japan, the third-largest world economy, added less than...

Soon, you won’t be able to see or touch cash in the coming global cashless society. The pace at which currency across the globe was challenged or devalued accelerated in 2016. The stage is now set for even greater momentum: In 2017, there’ll be a global sprint toward digital currency. Sweden – where barely 2...