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Trump’s tax plan will boost GDP, lift stocks and force a Fed rethink, RBC says

Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump delivers remarks to reporters as he meets with members of the House Ways and Means Committee about proposed changes to the U.S. tax code at the White House in Washington, U.S. September 26, 2017. Economists at the Royal Bank of Canada gave an …

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New York Film Festival Is a Feast for True Believers

“All things are possible in cinema,” Agnès Varda said back in 1966. This was at the New York Film Festival, during a conversation about form and content with Pier Paolo Pasolini and other cine luminaries. Over the decades — even as directors like Ms. Varda traded in their film cameras …

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Issue will go on ‘for some time’

Francois Lenoir | Reuters European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager holds a news conference at EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, July 14, 2016. European Union (EU) regulators told CNBC Thursday that it is “premature” to make a decision on whether Google’s attempt to remedy its antitrust violation on its shopping service …

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Donald Trump needles Mitch McConnell over Senate filibuster rule

Carlos Barria | Reuters President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he departures the Oval Office of the White House for Indianapolis, in Washington D.C., U.S. September 27, 2017. President Donald Trump is needling his party’s top senator — again. Following the latest Obamacare repeal failure in the Senate, Trump …

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Trump says NFL owners are ‘afraid’ of players; ‘it’s disgraceful’

Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in New York, September 18, 2017. President Donald Trump appears to have no plans to back off the controversy over National Football League protests. On Wednesday, he took his criticism of the league a …

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Hain Celestial, activist investor agree on board changes: WSJ

Francis Specker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Irwin Simon, president and chief executive officer of Hain Celestial Group Inc. Hain Celestial reached an agreement with activist investor Engaged Capital for changes in its board, which could pave the way for a potential sale of the organic food and beverage company, …

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Viva: A Warhol-Era Superstar Wants the Last Word

“You’re going to ask me a few things before I die, right?” she asked. And she in turn was going to set the record straight. “Working with Andy, it was kind of fun sometimes,” she said. His films, after all, had given her the chance “to do what I was …

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Toshiba sells chip unit to Bain-Apple group for $18 billion

Hitoshi Yamada | NurPhoto | Getty Images The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen at the company’s facility in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, Japan February 28, 2017. Toshiba agreed Thursday to sell its chip division for 2 trillion yen ($17.7 billion) to a Bain Capital-led consortium that involves large U.S. …

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What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Will & Grace’ and ‘How to Get Away With Murder’

Photo Eric McCormack and Debra Messing in “Will & Grace.” Credit Chris Haston/NBC The carefree bunch from “Will & Grace” return in a new revival. And Viola Davis pieces her life back together in “How to Get Away With Murder.” What’s on TV WILL & GRACE 9 p.m. on NBC. …

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Jan Triska, Czech-American Actor Seen in ‘Ragtime,’ Dies at 80

Photo Jan Triska in 2012. Credit Josef Horazny/Czech News Agency, via Associated Press Jan Triska, an actor known for his roles in movies like “Ragtime” who moved to the United States after he was banned by Czechoslovakia’s Communist government, died on Monday in Prague’s military hospital. He was 80. The …

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