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  • BusinessBusiness Insider

    Investors are ramping up their exits from Cathie Wood's ARK after an epic 72% decline in her flagship fund

    ARK has long counted Tesla as one of its top holdings, but its more than 40% decline year-to-date has weighed heavily on the performance.

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  • USAssociated Press Finance

    USPS commits to rerouting Reno-area mail despite bipartisan pushback and mail ballot concerns

    The USPS announced on Tuesday it will follow through with its plan to reroute Reno-area mail processing to Sacramento, a move that drew bipartisan ire from Nevada lawmakers while raising questions about the rate at which mail ballots can be processed in a populous part of a crucial swing state. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has cast the permanent measure as a cost saving move, but federal, state and local lawmakers have complained about a lack of transparency in the process that could slow mai

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  • PoliticsAFP

    Bill to ban TikTok in US clears Congress

    The US Senate on Tuesday approved legislation requiring the wildly popular social media app TikTok to be divested from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be shut out of the American market.Under the bill, ByteDance would have to sell the app within a year or be excluded from Apple and Google's app stores in the United States.

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  • PoliticsAFP

    Long-delayed Ukraine aid clears US Congress, awaits Biden signature

    The US Senate approved a $61 billion aid package for Ukraine late Tuesday that had been stalled for months in Congress, with President Joe Biden vowing fresh supplies to be delivered swiftly to the warzone as Russia makes battlefield gains.A Pentagon spokesperson told reporters Tuesday it could deliver fresh aid to Ukraine "within days."

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  • USWSOC

    Teacher says subs are getting overlooked in proposed CMS budget

    District leaders at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools are expected to vote next week on the superintendent’s $1.9 billion budget proposal.

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  • PoliticsAssociated Press Finance

    Senate passes bill forcing TikTok's parent company to sell or face ban, sends to Biden for signature

    The Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban, a contentious move by U.S. lawmakers that’s expected to face legal challenges and disrupt the lives of content creators who rely on the short-form video app for income. The TikTok legislation was included as part of a larger $95 billion package that provides foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel and was passed 79-18. It now goes to President Joe Bi

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  • PoliticsNY Daily News

    Trump faces potential punishment for violating gag order in hush money trial

    NEW YORK — During a devastating day for Donald Trump at his Manhattan hush money trial, a jury heard damning testimony from his decades-long ally David Pecker about a wide-ranging plan to hoist him out of obscurity and into the White House — and the presiding judge said his lead lawyer was “losing all credibility with the court.” Before the trial resumed, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan ...

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