Increasing Treasury yields have been the main reason for the stock market’s stumbles since the summer, as worries rise that the Fed will keep its federal funds rate at a high level for longer than Wall Street hopes.
Steve Ericson
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Men missing from U.S. jobs market set for comeback, research shows
A greater share of young men today have a post-secondary degree, signaling that as they age, they’ll enter the work force.
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Deadly bird flu reappears in U.S. commercial poultry flocks in Utah and South Dakota
Bird flu last year cost U.S. poultry producers nearly 59 million birds across 47 states, including egg-laying chickens and turkeys and chickens raised for meat, making it the country’s deadliest outbreak ever.
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The Amazon antitrust lawsuit is likely to be a long and arduous journey for the FTC
Experts say the Federal Trade Commission faces a few hurdles in its own case, including convincing the court which slice of the market Amazon is allegedly monopolizing.
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The future of electric vehicles looms over negotiations in the U.S. autoworkers strike
With the UAW strike now in its fourth week, EVs and their potential impact on job security have become central to union negotiations with the automakers.
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Migrants pass quickly through once impenetrable Darien jungle as governments scramble for answers
Crossing through the dense, lawless jungle not long ago was unthinkable to most people.
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Whales and dolphins in American waters are losing food and habitat to climate change, U.S. study says
A first-of-its-kind assessment says whales, dolphins and seals living in U.S. waters face major threats from the warming ocean temperatures, rising sea levels and decreasing sea ice associated with climate change.
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Election denier and ‘MyPillow Guy’ Mike Lindell confirms he’s out of money, can’t pay legal bills
Attorneys who’ve been defending MyPillow chief executive and election denier Mike Lindell against defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies are seeking court permission to quit
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Las Vegas police video shows first-ever arrest in rapper Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing
Newly released police body camera videos show the arrest of Duane “Keffe D” Davis on suspicion of murder in the 1996 shooting of Tupac Shakur near the Las Vegas Strip.
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A Russian missile attack in eastern Ukraine kills a 10-year-old boy and his grandmother
Officials said preliminary information indicated that the Kremlin’s forces used two Iskander missiles in the attack, the same as in the previous day’s strike on the village of Hroza that killed 52 people.