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Trump blames ‘bomb stuff’ for slowing GOP momentum in midterms

Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC, on October 25, 2018.  President Donald Trump tweeted on Friday that “this ‘Bomb’ stuff’ has greatly slowed the “momentum” of Republican candidates in early voting in the November …

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Person in custody in connection with mail bomb probe

CNN/Handout | Reuters A package containing a “live explosive device” according to police, received at the Time Warner Center which houses the CNN New York bureau, in New York City, U.S. is shown in this handout picture provided October 24, 2018.  A man in his 50s was arrested in Florida …

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Jeff Bezos loses as much as $14 billion in personal wealth

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., listens during an Economic Club of Washington discussion in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018.  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos lost as much as $14 billion in personal wealth as Amazon’s stock …

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Wealth of world’s billionaires grew 20% last year: UBS, PwC report

Visual China Group | Getty Images Alibaba Group Chairman Jack Ma attends 2018 Alibaba Xin Philanthropy Conference on September 5, 2018. The total wealth of global billionaires grew to $8.9 trillion in 2017, an increase of more than 19 percent from the previous year, according to a study released Friday …

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Mellanox working with adviser on possible sale

REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun Eyal Waldman, President and CEO of Mellanox Technologies poses for a photograph at the company’s headquarters in Yokneam, in northern Israel July 26, 2016.  Mellanox Technologies, which makes hardware that helps power supercomputers and Ethernet products used in data centers, has hired a financial adviser to seek a …

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Amazon ‘Other’ revenue, mostly advertising, near $2.5 billion in Q3’18

Alex Wong | Getty Images Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, founder of space venture Blue Origin and owner of The Washington Post, participates in an event hosted by the Air Force Association September 19, 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland.  Amazon’s nascent ad business is creeping up on the giants of online …

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AK Steel earnings Q3 2018

Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mounds of coking coal sit piled near the blast furnace at the AK Steel mill in Middletown, Ohio. AK Steel shares plunged as much as 15 percent after-hours Thursday following third-quarter earnings that missed expectations. The company reported earnings of 21 cents per …

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AWS q3  results

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, speaks at the WSJDLive Global Technology Conference in Laguna Beach, Calif., on Oct. 25, 2016. Amazon’s cloud-computing business grew 46 in the third quarter, trailing analysts’ estimates. Amazon Web Services generated revenue of $6.68 billion …

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Google CEO memo says 48 fired for sexual misconduct

Stephen Lam | Reuters Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018. Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to all Google employees Thursday saying the company has fired 48 people over the last two years for …

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Mattis expected to send hundreds of troops to border

Caitlin O’Hara | AFP | Getty Images Members of the Arizona National Guard listen to instructions on April 9, 2018, at the Papago Park Military Reservation in Phoenix. – Arizona deployed its first 225 National Guard members to the Mexican border on Monday after President Donald Trump ordered thousands of …

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