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In August, a few days before his 68th birthday, Leslie Scott, a rancher in Vivian, SD, went to the post office where he received bad news. The clerk told him his world record had been broken. That said, the hailstone Mr. Scott collected…

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell on Friday and the S&P 500 slid from a record high after the August job report fell below expectations, showing the effects of the delta-powered Covid resurgence.The Dow lost 74.73 points, or 0.21%,…

Thomas Trutschel | Photothek | Getty ImagesEthereum's much-hyped and somewhat controversial "London" hard fork has just activated.So far, news of the successful upgrade has coincided with a runup in the price of ether, the native token of…

WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats want to tax Exxon, Chevron and a handful of other big oil and gas companies, saying the biggest climate polluters should pay for the floods, forest fires and other disasters scientists have linked to…

San FranciscoCompass camera | Getty ImagesMany lawmakers are eager to curb the power of the biggest tech companies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.But some of their proposals could actually hurt the smaller businesses they are…

President Joe Biden will sign a new executive order on Friday aimed at tackling anti-competitive practices in big tech, labor and numerous other sectors.The comprehensive arrangement, which includes 72 measures and recommendations involving…

Medics in a pneumonia ward in the Philippines.Ezra Acayan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesLONDON - Mass vaccination campaigns are being carried out in the developed world, but many countries are still grappling with spikes in…

The tech companies also bring in antitrust experts. Amazon, Facebook, and Google each have dozens of in-house lawyers. In January 2020, Amazon hired a former FTC attorney, Amy Posner. In April 2020, Facebook hired numerous government…

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on weekdays.There was so much screaming at first. And now action is taken. (May be.)The bad mood over the power of big tech companies has a new and…

"These two things have to go hand in hand for my support," she said.Some democratic strategists are skeptical of the path to budget consensus. Senator Joe Manchin III. from West Virginia and Senator Kyrsten Sinema from Arizona, both…