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Goodyear Tire running flat after lowering 2017 outlook

Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images A mechanic stacks used tires outside the service bay of a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. auto garage in Shelbyville, Kentucky. Goodyear Tire & Rubber fell sharply in early trading Friday before recovering slightly in intraday trading. Down more than 13 percent at …

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Venezuela could be the first sovereign oil producer to ‘fully fail’

Ueslei Marcelino | Reuters A riot security force member aims his weapon at a rally during a strike called to protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government in Caracas, Venezuela, July 27, 2017. Venezuela is already having a major meltdown, and a nationwide vote set for Sunday could send the …

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Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston Preparing a New TV Series

Photo Reese Witherspoon, left, and Jennifer Aniston attend ELLE’s 18th Annual Women in Hollywood Tribute in 2011. Credit Todd Williamson/Getty Images For Elle Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston will star in and executive produce a television series about morning news shows and the New York media landscape, Stephen Huvane, a …

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Twitter finally has a paid subscription product — but it’s only for advertisers

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc., Twitter has a new business idea: It wants to charge advertisers a monthly fee for the company to handle all of their promoted tweets. That means a business would pay Twitter $99 …

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McCain, Collins calls for bipartisan health care bill after blocking Obamacare repeal

Tom Williams | CQ Roll Call | Getty Images Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, talks with reporters before a lunch in the Capitol on July 27, 2017. Two Republican senators who voted to block their party’s latest Obamacare repeal plan called Friday for a bipartisan fix for insurance markets. Sens. Susan …

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John G. Morris, Renowned Photo Editor, Dies at 100

At Magnum he offered assignments to the great war photographer and photo essayist W. Eugene Smith after Mr. Smith had had a falling-out with Life. While working for The Times during the Vietnam War, he successfully argued for front-page display of Eddie Adams’s photograph of a Saigon police chief shooting …

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Apple’s new patent application could move it one step closer to AR glasses

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during the Worldwide Developers Conference in California, U.S., on June 5, 2017. Yet another patent application by Apple in the buzzing field of augmented reality (AR) came to light Thursday. But according to analysts CNBC spoke to, …

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Paul Ryan insists tax reform will be different from Obamacare repeal debacle

Tom Williams | CQ Roll Call | Getty Images Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the Capitol on July 28, 2017. House Speaker Paul Ryan on Friday struck an optimistic tone on Republicans’ ability to reach a tax reform deal, …

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The White House’s ‘American heroes week’ has not gone according to plan

Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty Images White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci talks with reporters and members of the media outside the West Wing at the White House in Washington, DC on Tuesday, July 25, 2017. If you went into a lab to design a terrible week …

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Jefferies predicts Intel shares will fall nearly 15% on increasing competition from AMD

Rick Wilking | Reuters Brian Krzanich, Intel CEO, speaks during the Intel press conference at CES in Las Vegas, January 4, 2017. Intel reported better than expected second quarter earnings Thursday, but one analyst on Wall Street is not convinced it is a sign of better things to come. Jefferies …

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