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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell after a speech at the central bank's annual symposium at Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park, Aug. 26, 2022.
Fed Chair Says Higher Rates Unlikely to Cause Deep Recession
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Prospective employers and job seekers interact during during a job fair in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, Sept. 22, 2021.
Government Revision Shows Economy Shrank 0.6% Last Quarter
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Office of Defects Investigation has opened a query into seat belt pretensioners on certain 2020-2022 Kia/Hyundai vehicles, saying that they may rupture or explode.
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Workers of the electric repair brigade remove old cables from a post in San German, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, May 30, 2018. After an eight-month, $3.8 billion federal effort to try to end the longest blackout in United States history, officials say Puerto Rico’s public electrical authority, the nation’s largest, is almost certain to collapse again when the next hurricane hits this island of 3.3 million people.
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Officials say Puerto Rico's public electrical authority, the nation's largest, is almost certain to collapse again.
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In this May 16, 2018 photo, a worker from the Cobra Energy Company, contracted by the Army Corps of Engineers, installs power lines in the Barrio Martorel area of Yabucoa, a town where many continue without power in Puerto Rico. A group of Corps officials plans to remain in Puerto Rico for several weeks to demobilize contractors and hand logistic operations back to FEMA and PREPA.
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Google Dealing in Cuba
Google is installing multiple servers in Cuba that will host much of the company's most popular content.
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Fiat Polski 126p's from the Club Fiat Cuba, stand in a garage in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, August 10, 2016. The half-ton, two-cylinder Polish-made hatchback, the Fiat 126p was forgotten by most people after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Decades later, the car lovingly known as the Polski is basking in a Cuban revival.
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The half-ton Polski offers families a shot at independent mobility for a few thousand dollars, a sum within reach for those who are able to save.
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Workers prepare the site for a photo op at the entrance of a new Google technology center that will offer free Internet at the studio of Cuban artist Alexis Leiva Machado, better known as Kcho, in Havana, Cuba, Monday, March 21, 2016. Kcho has long maintained close relationship with the Castro government and became the first independent source of free Internet in Cuba last year when he began offering free WiFi at his studio.
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Deep differences notwithstanding, Obama's visit is lending itself to powerful illustrations of what future might be possible for the two countries that sit just 90 miles apart.
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Cuban President Raul Castro, left, shakes hands with U.S. President Barack Obama during a meeting in Revolution Palace, Monday, March 21, 2016. Brushing past profound differences, President Obama and President Castro sat down for a historic meeting, offering critical clues about whether Obama's sharp U-turn in policy will be fully reciprocated.
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Obama to meet U.S. and Cuban entrepreneurs aimed at championing Cuba's fledgling private sector.
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