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Conor McGregor in police custody after melee

Clodagh Kilcoyne | Getty Images Conor McGregor in a file photo dated October 22, 2015 in Dublin, Ireland. The MMA boxer has retracted an earlier statement claiming to retire from the UFC circuit on Thursday, April 22, 2016. UFC star Conor McGregor has turned himself into police in the wake …

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Gary Locke on a non-tariff strategy

Eliot Blondet | AFP | Getty Images Leaders attend the Summit of the Heads of State and of Government of the G7, the group of most industrialized economies, plus the European Union, on May 26, 2017 in Taormina, Sicily. “We really need to have reciprocity and we really need to …

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Japan’s Monex agrees to buy cryptocurrency firm that suffered massive hack

AFP | Getty Images Officials of the Financial Services Agency enter Coincheck’s headquarters to conduct a search, in Tokyo’s Shibuya district on February 2, 2018. Japanese authorities on February 2 raided virtual currency exchange Coincheck, a week after the Tokyo-based firm lost 530 million USD in cryptocurrency to hackers. Japanese …

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‘The playing field has to be level for everybody’

Yuri Gripas | Reuters President Donald Trump arrives at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S., upon his return to Washington from New York, December 2, 2017. President Donald Trump lashed out against Amazon for the sixth time in a week, during an Air Force One trip on Thursday back from …

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Trump asks US trade representative to consider $100 billion in additional tariffs on Chinese products

Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks before signing trade sanctions against China on March 22, 2018, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2018. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he has instructed the United States Trade …

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The Supreme Court fight over Microsoft’s foreign servers is over

Amit Madheshiya | Bloomberg | Getty Images Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft The much-anticipated Supreme Court case US v. Microsoft — which could have decided the extent of American jurisdiction over foreign servers — is now, for all intents and purposes, dead. On March 30th, the Department of …

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What we know about Trump plan to send troops to border

Getty Images A U.S. Border Patrol agent scans the U.S.-Mexico border while on a bridge over the Rio Grande on March 13, 2017 in Roma, Texas. President Donald Trump’s order to deploy National Guard forces has left key national security players in his administration scrambling to nail down details for …

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Brazilian stocks jump after court ruling likely cripples Lula’s chances for election run

Diego Vara | Reuters Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is greeted by supporters during a rally in Santana do Livramento, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil March 19, 2018. Brazilian stocks jumped on Thursday after a court ruled that former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva can …

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CalSTRS CIO deletes Facebook account, citing ‘offensive’ management

Christopher Goodney | Bloomberg | Getty Images Christopher Ailman, chief investment officer of the California State Teachers Retirement System Christopher Ailman, the chief investment officer of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), said Wednesday he deleted his Facebook account because of the company’s management. In a tweet, he said: …

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Top MBA programs beef up cyrptocurrency courses to keep up with demand

When the Israeli native realized there were no crypto courses listed for 2018, he rallied 12 classmates and sent a letter addressed to professors and associates of the business school. “Many of us will have to discuss blockchain at our jobs, it makes sense to teach it,” said Orr. “It …

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