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Nobody wants to buy a $1,000 iPhone, Barclays says

Stephen Lam | Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during a product launch event on October 27, 2016, in Cupertino, California. Barclays has bad news for Apple if it decides to price the its upcoming high-end iPhone at more than $1,000. In an investor note, Barclays said that just …

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Can’t Let Go of ‘S-Town’? Here’s What to Read Next

“The thing that’s been special for me in the last few months,” he said, “has been to hear the surprising ways it seems to have affected people. Specific ways that I couldn’t have predicted.” Mr. Reed said he has heard from people around the world who are now noticing sundials …

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GOP senators back Senate Majority Leader McConnell after Trump’s taunts

Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty President Donald Trump greets Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. takes his seat during a meeting with House and Senate Leadership in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Tuesday, June 06, 2017. Top Republican senators rallied …

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In Barbara Cook’s Final Days, Her Friends Came to Sing at Her Bedside

For some of Ms. Cook’s friends, lyrics simply came easier than words as they sat in her bedroom alongside her son, Adam LeGrant; her longtime manager, Jeff Berger; and her assistant of nearly three decades, Louise Martzinek. Singing, after all, defined Ms. Cook’s life, from her success on Broadway as …

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Fed key rate closer to ‘neutral,’ should be patient on inflation: Kaplan

Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Robert Kaplan, president of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The Federal Reserve’s key interest rate is getting close to a “neutral” level so the Fed should patiently wait for further evidence that inflation will rise before tightening policy again, Dallas Fed …

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‘The Great British Bake Off’ as We Know It Is Over. What Comes Next?

Three of its hosts — the celebrity chef Mary Berry and the comedians Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc — quickly quit in a messy public airing of grievances over the financially motivated change. They have been replaced. Photo The original hosts of “The Great British Bake Off,” from left: Paul …

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Towns in the path of the eclipse hope it will shine on bottom line

Call it eclipse economics. When a large swath of America is bathed in midday darkness for a couple of minutes on Aug. 21, hundreds of cities in the path of the eclipse are hoping it will be a once-in-a-generation boost to local economies. Or it could be a dud, and …

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Editta Sherman Gets Her Due at the New-York Historical Society

Photo June Carter Cash, photographed by Editta Sherman. Credit New-York Historical Society The name Editta Sherman may not ring a bell, but she was the blithe spirit who flitted through “Bill Cunningham New York,” about the New York Times’s street-fashion photographer, who died in 2016. Sherman (1913-2013) was Cunningham’s muse, …

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Snap is getting destroyed because of its ‘unwillingness’ to work with Wall Street

Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Evan Spiegel, co-founder and chief executive officer of Snap Inc., stands on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the company’s initial public offering on Thursday, March 2, 2017. Wall Street analysts continue to set a very high bar for Snap …

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Jeffrey Lord out at CNN after Nazi tweet

Michael A. Schwarz | Bloomberg | Getty Images Pedestrians pass in front of CNN signage displayed at the network’s headquarters building in Atlanta. Commentator Jeffrey Lord, one of President Trump’s staunchest defenders on cable news, was dumped by CNN Thursday after he tweeted a Nazi salute to a liberal media …

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