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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has added new criminal charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei and several subsidiaries, accusing the company of a brazen scheme to steal trade secrets from competitors in America, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. The new indictment also alleges the company provided surveillance equipment to Iran that enabled the monitoring of protesters […]

American Airlines and Alaska Airlines are deepening their ties in Seattle, where both carriers compete against Delta Air Lines By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer February 14, 2020, 1:34 AM 2 min read DALLAS — American Airlines and Alaska Airlines say they will cooperate more closely on West Coast service, including new American flights from

NEW YORK — Tony Rankins, a formerly homeless, drug-addicted Army veteran, got a standing ovation at the State of the Union after President Donald Trump described how he turned his life around thanks to a construction job at a company using the administration’s “Opportunity Zone” tax breaks targeting poor neighborhoods. But that’s not completely true.

LAS VEGAS — The Culinary Union, the most influential union in Nevada politics, has decided to stay out of the state’s Democratic presidential caucuses, denying candidates who aggressively courted the group from getting a major leg up in the upcoming contest. The casino workers’ Culinary Union, a 60,000-member group made up of housekeepers, porters, bartenders

Online furniture seller Wayfair said that it is cutting about 550 jobs, or 3% of its total workforce By JOSEPH PISANI AP Retail Writer February 13, 2020, 7:57 PM 1 min read NEW YORK — Online furniture seller Wayfair said Thursday that it is cutting about 550 jobs, or 3% of its total workforce. Most

Ms. Trauss sued a few months later. The great irony was that nobody was more unhappy about it than Mr. O’Brien. He had spent years and millions of dollars proposing two completely different projects. Now some activist group he’d never heard of was suing the city, and him, on behalf of his original project —

Tesla is selling $2 billion worth of additional stock to take advantage of a big jump in its share price By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer February 13, 2020, 5:49 PM 4 min read DETROIT — Tesla said that is selling $2 billion worth of additional stock, that its U.S. revenue fell last year and

“You never go back, with money,” Ms. Shelton said during the hearing, suggesting she was surprised that people portrayed her as supporting a return to a traditional gold standard. At one point, Ms. Shelton said that she “would not advocate going back to a prior historical monetary arrangement.” In 2009, Ms. Shelton started a Wall

Organizers of the world’s biggest mobile technology fair say the motive behind canceling the annual Mobile World Congress was purely health and safety concerns over the virus outbreak from China By RENATA BRITO and CIARÁN GILES Associated Press February 13, 2020, 4:16 PM 4 min read BARCELONA, Spain — Organizers of the world’s biggest mobile

American conservatives are global outliers in views about the fairness of income inequality, and they’re among the most likely to attribute such inequality to merit, an ambitious global survey reveals. Yet when it comes to actual behavior — whether to redistribute money to workers in an experimental setting — American conservatives act a lot like