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PublishedFebruary 12, 2024
Recession risks are fading, economists say, but political tensions threaten economy
Just a quarter of business economists and analysts expect the United States to fall into recession this year.
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2024
San Francisco crowd sets self-driving car on fire
Although cars without drivers have become a common sight on San Francisco’s winding and sloping streets, there are long-standing tensions between the city’s residents and the cars.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2024
Jimmy Van Eaton, an early rock ‘n’ roll drummer who played at Sun Records, dies at 86
Van Eaton played behind the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis and Billy Lee Riley at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2024
‘Diva’ film soprano Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez Smith has died at 75
She was well known for her performance in the French cult-classic film.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2024
Peter Silberman, high-ranking Washington Post editor, dies at 93
Peter H. Silberman, who fled Nazi Germany as a child for the relative safety of Japanese-occupied Shanghai, grew up to become a journalist and retired as the third-ranking editor at The Washington Post, died Feb. 8 at a hospital in Bethesda, Md. He was 93. The cause was sepsis and COVID, said his longtime friend and […]
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2024
Don Catlin, founder of modern anti-doping testing, dies at 85
Before Barry Bonds, before Russia at the Sochi Olympics, before the past four decades of sports doping scandals and allegations, there was Don Catlin in his UCLA laboratory. Before Catlin opened the United States’ first sports anti-doping lab in 1982, “bigger, faster, stronger” was something that came from a bottle. Steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs […]
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2024
Namibia president and anti-apartheid activist Hage Geingob dies
Also founding prime minister, he died at age 82 while receiving treatment for cancer.
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2024
Don Murray, versatile Hollywood leading man, dies at 94
Don Murray, an actor who earned an Oscar nomination for his movie debut as a naive cowboy infatuated with Marilyn Monroe’s third-rate nightclub singer in “Bus Stop” and then rebelled against studio efforts to typecast him in similar roles, most emphatically by playing a U.S. senator being blackmailed for a same-sex affair in “Advise & […]
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2024
Joe Madison, radio host who merged talk format and activism, dies at 74
‘I’m in the media, but I’m not a journalist,’ he once said. ‘I’m an advocate and activist who has a talk show.’
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PublishedJanuary 29, 2024
Inflation has slowed. Now the Federal Reserve faces expectations for rate cuts
Most economists say they expect the first rate cut to occur in May or June, though a cut at the Fed’s March meeting is not off the table.
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