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Republicans Defend Health Bill Against Another Adversary: Jimmy Kimmel

Photo “This guy, Bill Cassidy, he just lied right to my face,” Jimmy Kimmel said in his monologue on Tuesday night. Credit ABC WASHINGTON — Hours after Jimmy Kimmel unleashed a monologue attacking the latest bill that would undo much of the Affordable Care Act, two of the bill’s authors …

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Waymo sets Uber lawsuit damages at $2.6 billion

Geoff Robins | AFP | Getty Images John Krafcik, CEO of Waymo speaks at a press conference at the 2017 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, January 8, 2017. Alphabet’s Waymo unit is seeking about $2.6 billion from Uber for the alleged theft of one of several trade …

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These high-flying life sciences stocks make Netflix and Amazon look dull

The giants of the internet economy are typically cast as the leading fetish objects for growth investors. But compared to the TAMP stocks, FANG looks a bit dull. What’s TAMP, you ask? That would be Thermo Fisher Scientific, Agilent, Mettler-Toledo and PerkinElmer, just a few of the seldom-discussed names that …

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The Fed won’t stop cutting back on stimulus unless economy hits another big downturn, Yellen says

Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks during a press conference after the Federal Open Market Committee meetings in Washington, DC, on September 20, 2017. The Federal Reserve would only veer from its plans to reduce the trillions of stimulus it has provided if …

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Fed says hurricanes will have no lasting economic impact

Carolyn Cole | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Joshua Young takes some of his personal belonging out by kayak after flooding hit his apartment building during Hurricane Irma on September 12, 2017 in the San Marco area of Jacksonville, Florida. As yet another hurricane rips through the Caribbean, the …

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She’ll Be Back … but What Will Linda Hamilton’s New ‘Terminator’ Be Like?

Photo The character of Sarah Connor grew from a horrifyingly permed waitress in “The Terminator” to a musclebound guerilla fighter in “Terminator 2.” Credit TriStar Pictures For years now, the world’s “Terminator” fans have been comfortable in the knowledge that we would never again be excited by the prospect of …

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Paper ballots are back in vogue thanks to Russian hacking fears

Irfan Khan | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images A first time voter, walks up to polling booth to cast her vote at a polling station set-up at Watts Towers Arts Center on November 8, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Once about as newsworthy as water meters, the voting machines …

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Pfizer sues Johnson & Johnson over Remicade biosimilar

Mel Evans | AP A cheaper version of J&J’s top-selling drug, the rheumatoid arthritis treatment Remicade, could be available in the U.S. two years early after a federal judge ruled a key patent on the drug invalid. Pfizer on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, saying that the …

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Trump says he has made decision on Iran deal, declines to say what it is

Atta Kenare | AFP | Getty Images An Iranian woman and her son walk past Shahab-2 (L) and Shahab-3 missiles on display in front of a large portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a square in south Tehran. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he …

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Hurricane Maria now Category 4, makes landfall on Puerto Rico

Hector Retamal | AFP | Getty Images Trees are toppled in a parking lot at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 20, 2017, during the passage of the Hurricane Maria. In the neighborhood of Miramar in Puerto Rico’s capital, San Juan, Gerry Garraton said he was …

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