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Midwest snowstorm grounds hundreds of post-Thanksgiving flights

Scott Olson | Getty Images News | Getty Images American Airlines aircraft at the gates in O’Hare International Airport, Chicago. More than 1,000 flights were canceled as a snowstorm hit the U.S. Midwest on Sunday, snarling post-Thanksgiving travel on one of the busiest days of the year. The National Weather …

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Amazon’s NYC HQ seen boosting Long Island City’s housing market

Don Emmert | AFP | Getty Images A view of the waterfront of Long Island City in the Queens borough of New York, along the East River, on November 7, 2018.  Shawn Avazeh, a Long Island City-based real estate agent with Compass, was on his own honeymoon during the Amazon …

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Bitcoin extends losses, slides to lowest since September 2017

Yu Chun Christopher Wong | S3studio | Getty Images A photo illustration of the digital Cryptocurrency, Litecoin (LTC), Monero (XMR), Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP) and Dash are seen on September 13 2018 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Post-Thanksgiving, sentiment surrounding bitcoin has changed drastically, and certainly since last …

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LA Dodgers linked to $20 billion plan to stabilize big insurers: WSJ

Damian Dovarganes New owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers, from left, Robert Patton, Stan Kasten, Mark Walter, Earvin “Magic’ Johnson,” Peter Guber, and Todd Boehly pose for a photo at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 2, 2012. The $2 billion sale of the team to Guggenheim Baseball …

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How to retrain Siri to recognize your voice

Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple Inc., speaks at an Apple event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park on September 12, 2018 in Cupertino, California.  All of Apple’s modern devices let you say “Hey Siri,” to bring up Apple’s …

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‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ turned Queen into box office, music champions 

Keystone | Hulton Archive | Getty Images 8th September 1976: British rock group Queen at Les Ambassadeurs, where they were presented with silver, gold and platinum discs for sales in excess of one million of their hit single ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. The band are, from left to right, John Deacon, Freddie …

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Black Friday for Sears a ‘ghost town’ as it fights for survival

Lauren Hirsch | CNBC An empty Sears store in White Plains, New York, on Black Friday, November 23, 2018. The inside of Sears at the Galleria White Plains mall on Black Friday looked mostly the same as it has for the past few years. Yellow tags highlighted doorbuster sales. Rows …

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New York state judge rejects Trump claim that he can’t be sued because he’s president

Mark Lennihan | AP In this April, 2010 file photo, Donald Trump, left, chairman and CEO of the Trump Organization, cuts the ribbon with his children Eric, Ivanka, and Donald Trump, Jr. right, at the opening of the Trump SoHo New York. A New York Supreme Court judge on Friday …

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Jerome Corsi is in plea negotiations with Robert Mueller

AP Photo Jerome Corsi, who wrote “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, walks down a corridor Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 as he arrives at the immigration department in Nairobi, Kenya.  Jerome Corsi, a right-wing conspiracy theorist and associate of political operative Roger Stone, is in plea …

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Trump’s quest to drive down oil prices turns the screw on American drillers

President Donald Trump is rooting for oil prices to fall even further after a stunning plunge over the last seven weeks. The U.S. oil and gas industry, a pillar of Trump’s political base, is likely less enthusiastic. This year’s oil prices rally has swiftly collapsed as fears of potential oil …

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