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Hilde Lysiak, Reporter, Author, 10-Year-Old

Growing up, Ms. Lysiak traveled around the country with her father, a former reporter for The New York Daily News, when he was on assignment. Asked what she remembers from that time, she mentions a wild turkey chase in Staten Island and a visit to an oversize Christmas tree in …

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Cramer’s charts reveal red-hot software stocks have more room to run

Technology is a favorite sector on Wall Street, so CNBC’s Jim Cramer felt it was his duty to see if investors were too late to buy into one of its top groups: the software stocks. “It’s good to be a software company right now,” the “Mad Money” host said. “Whenever …

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A Refusal to Compromise? Civil War Historians Beg to Differ

Constitution as Compromise Photo Two months after President Trump stirred debate with a defense of Confederate monuments, his chief of staff, Mr. Kelly, waded back into the fray of Civil War history. Credit Tom Brenner/The New York Times The compromises over slavery began with the Constitution itself. It famously declared …

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Vivian Maier, Through a Clearer Lens

But stories — like snapshots — are shaped by people, and for particular purposes. There’s always an angle. A new biography, “Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife,” by Pamela Bannos, strives to rescue Maier all over again, this time from the men who promulgated the Maier myth and profited …

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Market valuations at Greenspan ‘irrational exuberance’ level

As the stock market keeps moving higher, valuations have reached an ominous level that comes appropriately enough on Halloween. The Shiller CAPE ratio, which compares stock prices to their earnings over a 10-year period, is at 31.43, about where it was when then-Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan gave his widely cited …

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Netflix Suspends Production of ‘House of Cards’

Photo Kevin Spacey in the Netflix political thriller “House Of Cards.” Netflix said it was suspending production of the show after sexual harassment allegations against Mr. Spacey. Credit David Giesbrecht/Netflix, via Associated Press Production on the final season of “House of Cards” was suspended Tuesday, two days after its star, …

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How much does it cost to repair the iPhone X?

Drew Angerer | Getty Images A customer views a display featuring Apple Watch Nike+ at an Apple Store in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. It’s becoming more and more worthwhile to sign up for Apple’s repair and protection services. The latest iPhone, the iPhone X, opened for preorder on Oct. …

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The space industry will be worth nearly $3 trillion in 30 years, Bank of America predicts

Bank of America Merrill Lynch sees the size of the space industry octupling over the next three decades, to at least $2.7 trillion. “We are entering an exciting era in space where we expect more advances in the next few decades than throughout human history,” the firm wrote in a …

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Review: In ‘1945,’ Hungarian Villagers Are Forced to Revisit Wartime Sins

Photo From left, Peter Rudolf, Jozsef Szarvas and Agi Szirtes in “1945.” Credit Lenke Szilagyi/Menemsha Films The men in hats arrive by train and slowly walk the dusty road toward the village, following the horse-drawn flatbed that carries their cargo. The stationmaster bicycles ahead of them to issue a warning …

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The backbone of all this technology we are using is breaking out

Getty Images A model demonstrates Intel’s Project Alloy, an all-in-one merged reality headset during an Intel press event for CES 2017 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on January 4, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Chip stocks are surging and it bodes well for the broader technology sector going forward. …

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