Joe Mandak

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The entrance to the Labor Department is seen near the Capitol in Washington, May 7, 2020.
Trump's Nominee to Oversee Jobs, Inflation Data Faces Shower of Criticism
August 13, 2025
President Trump at Lehigh Valley International Airport, Aug. 3, 2025, Allentown, Pa.
Trump Nominates Conservative Economist to Head Agency that Compiles Jobs, Inflation Data
August 12, 2025
Visitors give commands to a robot at Nvidia's booth during the 3rd China International Supply Chain Expo at the China International Exhibition Center, in Beijing, China, Friday, July 18, 2025.
U.S. Will Get a 15% Cut of Nvidia, AMD Chip Sales to China Under a New, Unusual Agreement
August 12, 2025
Plastic items are seen on Place des Nations in front of the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025 before the second segment of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution (INC-5.2).
U.S. at Plastics Treaty Talks Is Rare International Participation Under Trump
August 8, 2025
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James Delligatti invented the chain's signature burger with two all-beef patties, 'special sauce,' lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.
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Man Who Created the Big Mac Dies
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In this Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016, file photo, Matt Grigsby, senior program engineer at Otto, takes his hands off the steering wheel of a self-driving, big-rig truck during a demonstration on the highway, in San Francisco. Uber's self-driving startup Otto developed technology allowing big rigs to drive themselves. After taking millions of factory jobs, robots could be coming for a new class of worker: people who drive for a living.
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Regulation
PA Cheese Firms Plead Guilty in Wood Pulp Case
A woman whose family controls several western Pennsylvania cheese-making firms will plead guilty to charges that their grated cheese had too little cheese and too much wood pulp.
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