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North Korea figure skating pair qualify for Olympics in South Korea

Michael Dalder | Reuters Ryom Tae-Ok and Kim Ju-Sik of North Korea compete in Oberstdorf, Germany, September 29, 2017. North Korea on Friday secured its presence at South Korea’s Pyeongchang Olympics in February with figure skaters Ryom Tae-Ok and Kim Ju-Sik grabbing one of the last qualifying spots on offer …

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Get ready to pay more for your Thanksgiving flight

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Travelers wait in line before going through Transportation Security Administration screening at Ronald Reagan National airport in Washington, D.C. The days of rock-bottom Thanksgiving airfares are over. Roundtrip domestic U.S. flights are about 13 percent more expensive this year than in 2016, fetching …

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Equifax board hired law firm WilmerHale to review early August stock trades

Tami Chappell | Reuters Credit reporting company Equifax corporate offices are pictured in Atlanta, Georgia, September 8, 2017. Equifax’s board hired the law firm WilmerHale to do an independent review of the data breach and the company’s response to it and to review early August stock trades by some of …

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New Book About Woody Allen Alleges Abusive Parenting by Mia Farrow

Photo Mia Farrow this year. Credit Angela Weiss/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A new book about Woody Allen’s film career includes allegations that Mia Farrow, his former partner, was abusive toward their children and coached their daughter, Dylan, to accuse Mr. Allen of sexual abuse. An excerpt from the book, …

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Lilly names new CFO, replaces head of R&D in management shakeup

Konrad Fiedler | Bloomberg | Getty Images Eli Lilly’s office in La Jolla, California. Eli Lilly named a new chief financial officer and replaced the head of its research and development arm, among other changes to its top management on Friday, weeks after the drugmaker announced layoffs to cut costs. …

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Senate budget proposal calls for tax reform bill before Nov. 13

Getty Images Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks as Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and other congressional Republicans listen during a press event on tax reform September 27, 2017 at the Capitol in Washington, DC. On Wednesday, Republican leaders proposed cutting …

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Germaine Acogny on Choosing to Be the Chosen One

In it, Ms. Acogny recites from “Discourse on Colonialism,” a caustic 1955 essay by the Martinican activist and intellectual Aimé Césaire. It’s a passage about how colonizers (like the French in Senegal), in thinking of the colonized as beasts, become beasts themselves. Photo Ms. Agocny’s school, École des Sables (School …

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Buy Nvidia, market’s hottest stock, on its gaming, A.I. prowess: Citi

Jacob Kepler | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer and co-founder of Nvidia, speaks at an International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Another Wall Street firm is getting even more bullish on Nvidia, even after the stock’s amazing market-leading run during the past year. Citi Research …

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Hurricane-driven sell-off in Carnival is overdone Nomura Instinet says

Sven Creutzmann | Mambo photo | Getty Images The Carnival cruise ship Adonia in Havana, Cuba, May 3, 2016. Carnival shares are faltering this month after the damage caused by multiple hurricanes in the Caribbean hurt cruise line demand. But the drop is now a great buying opportunity, according to …

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UK on track for rate hike in ‘relatively near term’

Yuri Gripas | Reuters Bank of England Governor Mark Carney leaves after speaking at 2017 Institute of International Finance (IIF) policy summit in Washington, U.S., April 20, 2017. “If the speed limit has slowed and we’re in a position where we’ve used up a lot of the capacity in this …

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