Smaller stocks outpaced the broader market in a sign that investors are more confident about economic growth.
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North Korea’s Kim lost 44 pounds but remains healthy, Seoul says
His health has been a focus of keen outside attention in recent months because he has appeared noticeably thinner in state media photos and videos.
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Cheap antidepressant shows promise in treating COVID-19
The pill, called fluvoxamine, would cost $4 for a course of treatment compared to about $2,000 for antibody IV treatments.
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WHO: Europe had most COVID-19 cases, deaths over last week
The U.N. health agency’s 53-country European region recorded an 18% increase in infections and a 14% increase in virus-related deaths.
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Rise in baguette prices poses crunch for the French
The pressure on the bread industry has been linked to a 30% worldwide increase since September in the price of wheat – one of the baguette’s key ingredients – after bad harvests in Russia.
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Report: At least 59,000 meat workers caught COVID last year, and 269 died
The new estimate of infections in the meatpacking industry is nearly three times higher than the number the United Food and Commercial Workers Union has said were infected.
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Exacerbated by pandemic, child care crisis hampers economy
The absence of reliable and affordable child care limits the jobs people can accept, makes it harder to climb the corporate ladder and ultimately restricts the ability of the broader economy to grow.
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British college hands over looted bronze to Nigeria
It’s part of a modest but growing effort in some European countries to return African art taken by colonial powers.
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Group clings to faith as U.S. works to resolve Haiti kidnapping
Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries responds a day after a video was released showing the leader of the 400 Mawozo gang threatening to kill those abducted if his demands are not met.
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White House: Biden to outline filibuster changes in ‘weeks’
But at a CNN town hall on Thursday, the president predicted that eliminating the 60-vote threshold to end debate on most legislation in the Senate would be ‘difficult’ beyond the debt limit.