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Mike Pence lays out goals for Obamacare repeal, tax cuts

Carolyn Kaster | AP Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) 2017 Manufacturing Summit in Washington, Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Vice President Mike Pence promised Tuesday that Republicans will pass an Obamacare replacement plan by the end of the summer and “tax cuts” this year. …

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Goulard and Ferrand quit French government as reshuffle looms

Bertrand Guay | Pool | Reuters French Minister of the Armed Forces Sylvie Goulard (C) attends the ceremony to mark the 77th anniversary of late French General Charles de Gaulle’s resistance call of June 18, 1940, at the Mont Valerien memorial in Suresnes, near Paris, France, June 18, 2017. French …

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Brooklyn Academy of Music Puts 70,000 Archive Materials Online

Photo Merce Cunningham onstage, with the composer John Cage to the right, in “How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run” in 1970. The image is part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s new digital archives. Credit James Klosty More than 70,000 playbills, posters and ephemera from the history of the …

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Google AI helped speed takedown of terrorist, racist content

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Susan Wojcicki, chief executive officer of YouTube Inc., introduces the company’s new television subscription service at the YouTube Space LA venue in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. Google’s YouTube unit says new software improved its ability to spot …

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Don’t expect oil to reverse bear market anytime soon, history shows

U.S. crude oil fell into bear market territory on Tuesday, and the losses could continue in the coming months if historical trends hold. CNBC ran a study to see how U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil performs after the commodity experiences a plunge of 20 percent or more from recent …

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Tim Cook told Trump tech employees are ‘nervous’ about immigration

Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers brief remarks as U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and White House Director of the Office of American Innovation and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner listen during a meeting of the American Technology Council in the State Dining Room of the White House June …

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It’s my dream not to be the face of it’

Phillip Faraone | Getty Images Gwyneth Paltrow at a book signing event in Los Angeles on June 8, 2017 It might be easy to mock Goop – Paltrow’s first “In Goop Health” wellness event was held in Los Angeles earlier this month, to some ridicule in the press – but …

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Ford to invest $900 million in Kentucky plant

Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee works on a Ford Motor Co. Super Duty Truck engine at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Kentucky, Sept. 30, 2016. Ford Motor has plans to invest $900 million in its Kentucky truck plant, securing — not adding — 1,000 …

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Steven Pasquale, Set to Star in ‘Junk,’ Backs Out of ‘Brigadoon’

Photo Steven Pasquale in “The Bridges of Madison County” in 2014. He was cast in a new play at Lincoln Center Theater and had to depart a musical at City Center. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times One theater’s gain is another one’s loss. Steven Pasquale (“The Bridges of Madison …

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A close look shows why the tech rally could be back on

Some strategists are forecasting further upside for technology stocks based upon technical indicators and options market activity after the group posted its best day of the year. Technology stocks appeared to recover on Monday after several sluggish days earlier this month, when a market rotation caused the sector — particularly …

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