October 2019

Trump Taps Dan Brouillette to Succeed Rick Perry as Energy Secretary

President Trump said on Friday that he planned to nominate Dan Brouillette, the deputy secretary of energy, to succeed Rick Perry as the head of the Department of Energy. Mr. Perry, who has drawn scrutiny for his role in the controversy surrounding Mr. Trump’s efforts to push Ukraine officials to investigate the son of a

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Stocks end lower; S&P 500 notches 2nd straight weekly gain

The S&P 500 index closed out an uneven week of trading on Wall Street with its second straight weekly gain, even though stock indexes ended lower Friday. Technology companies led the slide, which erased the major U.S. indexes’ gains from the day before. Communication services, industrials and health care stocks also fell, outweighing gains in

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Over-the-counter heartburn drug Zantac pulled in US, Canada

Drugmaker Sanofi is recalling its over-the-counter heartburn drug Zantac in the U.S. and Canada because of possible contamination. The French company Friday joined other drugmakers that have recently recalled their versions of the popular heartburn and ulcer drug. In September, the Food and Drug Administration said a potentially cancer-causing chemical had been detected at low

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Jenna Dewan Says She Found Out About Channing Tatum’s New GF Online

The “Step Up” actor wrote about the separation in her forthcoming book “Gracefully You: Finding Beauty and Balance in the Everyday,” obtained by E! ahead of the Oct. 22 publication. Dewan wrote that divorce was not on her “docket of dreams” and described the pain of having to answer reporters’ questions about Tatum after they had

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Supreme Court to Rule on Trump’s Power to Fire Head of Consumer Bureau

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would hear a challenge to the leadership structure of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, agreeing to decide whether the president is free to fire its director without cause. The bureau, the brainchild of Elizabeth Warren, then a law professor at Harvard and now a senator

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Fed Signals a Rate Cut Remains Possible, Despite Glimmers of Economic Hope

WASHINGTON — The United Kingdom drew closer this week to exiting the European Union with a deal, and trade talks with China have led to a mild de-escalation. But those hopeful signs were not enough to soothe Federal Reserve officials’ worries about the United States economy. As they head into a quiet period ahead of

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